Object details
Accession number
P3e7
Primary Creator
John Singer Sargent
(Florence, 1856 - 1925, London)
Full title
Yoho Falls
Creation Date
1916
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from John Singer Sargent, Boston on 26 November 1916 for $2,500.
Marks
Signed and dated (upper left): John S. Sargent 1916
Dimensions
94 x 113 cm (37 x 44 1/2 in.)
Display Media
Oil on canvas
Dimension Notes
Frame: 122.5 x 141.8 cm (48 1/4 x 55 13/16 in.)
Web Commentary
In the summer of 1916, John Singer Sargent felt a need for a respite from working on his mural scheme for the Boston Public Library and made plans to travel to the Candadian Rockies. Isabella Stewart Gardner took an interest in his trip and promised to buy a picture of Yoho Falls should Sargent manage to paint one. Sargent camped in a remote area under the falls and wrote to Isabella, "It is magnificent when the sun shines, which it did for the first two days. & I began a picture——that is ten days ago——and since then it has been raining and snowing steadily——provisions and temper getting low——but I shall stick it out till the sun reappears..." Sargent did indeed stick it out and Isabella purchased the picture that fall. It now hangs in the Blue Room gallery of her museum.
Permanent Gallery Location
Blue Room
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 40.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 226-27.
Rebecca W. Karo. “Ah Wilderness! Sargent in the Rockies, 1916.” Fenway Court (1976), pp. 20-29.
Hilliard Goldfarb et al. Sargent: The Late Landscapes. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1999), p.112, no. 12.
Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray (ed.). John Singer Sargent Figures and Landscapes, 1914-1925: Complete Paintings, Vol. IX (New Haven and London, 2016), pp. 146-47, cat. 1796.
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