Gallery Talk: His Strangest Paintings: John Singer Sargent in the Tyrol 1914 (Duxbury)

John Singer Sargent and a small painting party of friends were marooned without passports in the Austrian Tyrol for the first four months of the first World War. From that anxious time, he brought back “the strangest pictures he ever painted.” In these works, including the masterpiece now in the Art Complex, The Confession, he expressed his own fears and anxieties and his empathy with the uncertainties and suffering that he witnessed.
Karen Corsano and Daniel Williman, authors of John Singer Sargent and His Muse (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) will give an illustrated reading of His Strangest Pictures, their new study of this body of Sargent’s work. Their study is the first thorough examination of this Sargent period, and full of new discoveries. None of the Sargent biographies do more than mention it briefly. Corsano andWilliman revisited the places where Sargent worked, and they will show those little-known pictures in the course of an itinerary through the actual scenes.
FREE, no registration required.
Shown:
John Singer Sargent
American, 1856–1925
The Confession, Summer 1914
Oil on canvas, 53.09