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Article: Young man and the sea.(ARTS & CULTURE)(ART)(Column)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 13, 2009
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Byline: Deborah K. Dietsch , THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Scenes of roiling waves, ocean sunsets and sandy beaches expose a neglected period of John Singer Sargent's career in a revelatory show at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. They make it tempting to think Sargent could have become a great painter of marine landscapes instead of a virtuoso portraitist.
The more than 80 pencil drawings, watercolors and oil paintings in Sargent and the Sea were mostly created between 1874 and 1879, when the artist was in his late teens and early twenties. At his death in 1925, his fame for society portraits had eclipsed these early works.
The exhibit's sea-themed sketches ...