Object details
Accession number
ARC.009340
Primary Creator
Full title
John Singer Sargent's "Negroes Bathing"
Creation Date
about 1917
Language
English
Provenance
Cut from the newspaper by Isabella Stewart Gardner in about 1917.Enclosed in Isabella Stewart Gardner's Guest Book, Vol. XIV, 1915 - 1918. (v.1.b.4.25)
Marks
Printed in ink (beneath the image): NEGROES BATHING. / By John S. Sargent. On the Beach, Somewhere in Florida, the Dark Forms of the Colored Folk Commingle with the Bristling Shadows in a Way to Delight the Wandering Sketch Artist.
Display Media
Printed ink on paper
Web Commentary
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Permanent Gallery Location
Vatichino
Bibliography
Nathaniel Silver, "Thomas McKeller, John Singer Sargent, and Isabella Stewart Gardner: An Introduction," in Nathaniel Silver et al. Boston's Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2020), p. 20, fig. 8.
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