Richard Ormond is Director of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England. Elaine Kilmurray has published a number of articles on Sargent.
"This is the first volume in a complete-works catalog that will
include oil paintings, watercolors and pastels by the 19th Century
American expatriate. . . . It encompasses a number of his most
famous paintings, reproducing them beautifully in color and
providing a number of luscious closeups of his virtuoso brushwork.
The superb introductory essay sets his work against artistic
theories of the period, and detailed entries on the paintings
provide even biographical accounts of the sitters. A book that
amply justifies its sixteen years of labor—and not only to
specialists."—Alan G. Artner, Chicago Tribune
"This beautifully illustrated volume . . . is the first in a
massive study which will document the painter’s 600-odd portraits
and 1,700 subject pictures and landscapes in oil and water-color. .
. . The notes accompanying each illustration are illuminating and
well written and the Introduction helps those who only know Sargent
as the painter of grand English ladies to see what a great painter
he was."—Contemporary Review
". . . the Sargent volumes set a model for generosity and
accessibility."—Marc Simpson, Burlington Magazine
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