Venetian Bead Stringers
John Singer Sargent -- American painter 
1880 or 1882
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo New York 
Oil on canvas
66.99 x 78.10 cm (26 3/8 x 30 3/4 in)
Friends of the Albright Art Gallery Fund, 1916
1916:2
Jpg: local / athenaeum.org

   
The process of stringing beads involved gathering the beads onto wires from a small wooden tray with a bowel type trough placed in their lap. These two seated women appear to be sharing one of these wooden trays, as another woman looks on.  

The painting was made in the same Palazzo corridor as A Venetian Interior. For whatever reason, the paintings on the walls are absent from this rendition. 
 
 
A Venetian Interior  
1880-82  

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Bibliography 

2003 - Sargent and Italy  
2001 - Circa 1900: From the Genteel Tradition to the Jazz Age  
1999 - Masterworks at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery  
1998 - American Paintings from the Masco Corporation  
1997 - Uncanny Spectacle: The Public Career of the Young John Singer Sargent  
1997 - Sargent Abroad, Figures and Landscapes  
1990 - American Painting and Sculpture at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute  
1989 - Moving Pictures  
1986 - John Singer Sargent  
1985 - Antiques  
1984 - Venice: The American View 1860-1920  
1983 - John Singer Sargent  
1979 - Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Painting and Sculpture from Antiquity to 1942  
1971 - From Realism to Symbolism Whistler and his World  
1970 - John Singer Sargent: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors  
1964 - American Artist  
1964 - Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Bulletin  
1926 - The Buffalo Arts Journal  
1926 - Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition  
1916 - Blue Book  
1913 - Academy Notes  

Exhibitions 

02-02-2003 - 09-14-2003: Sargent and Italy  
03-03-2001 - 08-25-2002: Circa 1900: From the Genteel Tradition to the Jazz Age  
06-12-1997 - 09-07-1997: Uncanny Spectacle: The Public Career of the Young John Singer Sargent;  

    The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA,June 12 - September 7, 1997
10-01-1986 - 04-17-1987: Venetian Bead Stringers  
    Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 
    October 1, 1986 - January 4, 1987 
    The Art Institute of Chicago, IL 
    February 4 - April 17, 1987
02-27-1985 - 04-21-1985: Exhibition Title Unknown  
10-20-1984 - 01-20-1985: Venice: The American View, 1860-1920  
    The Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA 
    October 20, 1984 - January 20, 1985
10-19-1983 - 12-18-1983: Americans in Venice  
    Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc., New York, NY 
    October 19 - November 19, 1983 
    Boston Atheneum 
    November 22 - December 18, 1983
04-05-1978 - 12-09-1979: John Sargent and the Edwardian Age  
03-04-1971 - 05-23-1971: Whistler and His Contemporaries  
04-18-1964 - 01-03-1965: The Private World of John Singer Sargent  
    The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 
    April 18 - June 14, 1964 
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH 
    July 7 - August 16, 1964 
    The Worchester Art Museum, Worchester, MA 
    September 17 - November 1, 1964 
    Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY 
    November 15, 1964 - January 3, 1965 
     
07-02-1961 - 07-18-1961: Fifteen American Painters-from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery  
12-05-1954 - 01-30-1955: Dedication Exhibition of Memorial Center 

John Singer Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987

Sargent and Italy   2-2-2003 thru 9-14-2003

Image from John Singer Sargent, Whitney Museum, 1987 





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Created 6/20/2003