Object details
Object number
ARC.004825
Creator(s)
John Singer Sargent
(Florence, 1856 - 1925, London)
Title
Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from Yoho Valley, British Columbia and Letter to John Singer Sargent from Gordon Fairchild from Seville
Date
20 August 1916
Medium
Ink on paper
Language
English
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed in pencil (recto, upper left): 64 / 1916
Inscribed in pencil (recto, upper right): 81
Inscribed in pencil (envelope, upper left): 64 / 1916 / with note from Gordon Fairchild
Inscribed in pencil (envelope, upper right): 81
Provenance
Letter from John Singer Sargent to Isabella Stewart Gardner, 20 August [1916], on a letter from Gordon Fairchild to John Singer Sargent, 20 July, 1916.
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner and painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) were close friends for decades. The two exchanged many letters, and almost two hundred of Sargent’s letters are preserved in the Museum archives. In this letter from the summer of 1916, Sargent writes from “Camping Somewhere in the Yoho Valley, British Columbia” where he was on one of his habitual sketching trips. Despite his remote location in the Canadian wilderness, Sargent dedicates most of this letter to a single subject: flamenco records that he suggests Gardner purchase.
Bibliography
Diana Seave Greenwald, "Spanish Music, South Korean Choreographers, and the Museum Archives," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 15 April 2020, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/spanish-music-south-korean-choreographers-and-museum-archives
Gallery
Long Gallery
Case
Sargent / Whistler Case
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