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06-01-2004, 07:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Mike Dodson
I don't have an answer to your question Michele but I would like to plug these three volumes of Sargent's complete portrait works (I just received my 3rd) and say that they are exceptional. The colored plates are tremendous as well as Ormond's detailed description of each painting and his historical account of Sargent's career.
Excellent!
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Mike,
I hate to rub something in, but living so close to Boston, I am fortunate to see so many originals. They are great to study, and I have many, many, times.
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06-02-2004, 02:49 PM
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Location: Centreville, AL
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Sharon,
I am sooooooo enviuos! We have two painting of Sargent's here in Birmingham, one is a copy he did of a Hals painting and another is "Lady Helen Vincent". I was so awe struck the first time I saw it that I would visit the museum twice a week for two months and just soak everything in I could from this painting. I would make notes and go back to my studio and try different things. Visually it appears so simple. I know who to look up for a tour the next time I go to Boston!
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06-02-2004, 05:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Mike Dodson
Sharon,
I am sooooooo enviuos! We have two painting of Sargent's here in Birmingham, one is a copy he did of a Hals painting and another is "Lady Helen Vincent". I was so awe struck the first time I saw it that I would visit the museum twice a week for two months and just soak everything in I could from this painting. I would make notes and go back to my studio and try different things. Visually it appears so simple. I know who to look up for a tour the next time I go to Boston!
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You are on!
It seems I am the official SOG Boston tour guide!
They are awesome and there is one huge one that is new and I have never seen in a book.
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06-03-2004, 08:03 AM
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'02 Finalist, PSA
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Location: Greensboro, NC
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Matt V--
The price-commanding power of Zorn's etchings makes more sense if you've seen them. Some of us found a wall full at the Gardner Museum in Boston at the last PSOA conference in April.
They're really indescribable. The light within them is palpable. He's gotten every possible nuance of tone possible in a value scale, and in the nudes, the flesh has a tactile appearance so lush as to rival oils.
All this from no more than an arrangement of black and white hatching. Just stupendous. See them if you can.
--TE
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