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The Artist Sketching
John Singer Sargent American
Not on view
Dwight Blaney (1865–1944) was an American landscape painter, naturalist, and important collector of American antiques. Sargent and Blaney met when the former was working on his murals for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Blaney invited Sargent to escape the city’s summer heat at his home on Ironbound Island, Maine. Sargent found the remoteness and solitude of the sparsely populated island conducive to painting.
Blaney is shown perched atop a rock outcropping poised to work at his easel. Sargent uses brilliant blue highlights throughout the composition to suggest effects of light and shadow. In this work, Sargent’s fluid handling of oil paint evokes his watercolor technique. The amazing gnarled fallen tree trunk compresses the painting’s depth and is a focal point of the composition.
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