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John Singer Sargent: Watercolors

John Singer Sargent: Watercolors

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by Erica Hirshler (Author), Teresa Carbone (Author), Richard Ormond (Author), Annette Manick (Author), John Sargent (Artist) John Singer Sargent’s approach to watercolor was unconventional. Going beyond turn-of-the-century standards for carefully delineated and composed landscapes filled with transparent washes, his confidently bold, dense strokes and loosely defined forms startled critics and fellow practitioners alike. One reviewer of an exhibition in London proclaimed him “an eagle in a dove-cote”; another…