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At the center of the critical debate over the status of John Singer Sargent’s watercolors lies the question of their relation to his far more famous landscapes and portraits in oil. Were these a frustrated professional’s non-commercial, modernist experiments, or simply “diaries in water-colour” that portray “exactly what the upper-class tourist sees,” as Sargent’s indefatigable critic Robert Fry wrote in 1926? The exhibition “John Singer Sargent Watercolors,” which pools the holdings of the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and is currently on view at the former institution (through July 28, after which it travels to the latter, and then to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), chiefly favors the first thesis, though it by no means settles the debate...
Posted on: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:57:53 +0000

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