Henry
Tonks
John Singer
Sargent -- American
painter
1918
Syndics
of the Fitzwilliam Museum,
Cambridge,
England
Pencil and ink
on paper
24.8 x 37.1 cm
(9 3/4 x
14 5/8 in.)
Jpg: Local source
Henry Tonks
(1862-1937) studied medicine
and became a doctor at the Royal Free Hospital in London. Tonks also
attended
drawing lessons at the London Technical Institute where he met the
artist
Frederick Brown. When Brown became principal of Slade Art School, he
convinced
Tonks to give up medicine and become one of its teachers. He joined the
New
English Art Club and would be a big supporter of it his whole life.
At the outbreak of WWI Tonks returned to medicine and was stationed in
France. In 1918 Tonks was invited to be an official war atist along
with
Sargent.
From the war Tonks
produced "An
Advanced Dressing Station in France" (thumbnail left). Tonks also
completed
another painting with a medical theme "An Underground Casualty
Clearing Station" (1918)
After the war Tonks
returned to the
Slade Art School. He continued to paint and his most
well-known work, Saturday Night in the Vale, was completed just
before his retirement in 1930.
(in large part from Spartacus.schoolnet)
Notes:
Exhibitions
John
Singer
Sargent,
An Exhibition -- Whitney
Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987
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