BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 88 pgs / 70 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 9/30/2013 Active
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2013 p. 80
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9780878468096TRADE List Price: $9.95 CAD $14.95 GBP £8.99
AVAILABILITY Out of stock
TERRITORY WORLD
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Museum of Art, 04/05/13-07/08/13
Boston, MA Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 10/13/13-01/20/14
“Born in Italy to American parents, trained in Paris, and a resident of London, Sargent personified the international cosmopolitanism of the late nineteenth century.”
John Singer Sargent: Murals in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Text by Carol Troyen, Pamela Hatchfield, Lydia Vagts.
Born in Italy, trained in Paris and a resident of London, John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) became Boston’s favorite painter in the 1880s. His commissions from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to decorate its new building’s grand staircase and rotunda resulted in one of Sargent’s last and most ambitious works. Sargent regarded the entire space as a giant canvas and brought together all the pictorial, decorative and architectural elements with a painter’s skill and vision. This compact volume offers a guide to the murals and their surroundings, elucidating their allegorical subjects drawn from classical mythology to emphasize the museum’s role as the guardian of fine arts.
Featured image is reproduced from John Singer Sargent: Murals in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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FORMAT: Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 88 pgs / 70 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $9.95 LIST PRICE: CANADA $14.95 GBP £8.99 ISBN: 9780878468096 PUBLISHER: MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston AVAILABLE: 9/30/2013 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: Out of stock TERRITORY: WORLD
John Singer Sargent: Murals in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Published by MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Text by Carol Troyen, Pamela Hatchfield, Lydia Vagts.
Born in Italy, trained in Paris and a resident of London, John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) became Boston’s favorite painter in the 1880s. His commissions from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to decorate its new building’s grand staircase and rotunda resulted in one of Sargent’s last and most ambitious works. Sargent regarded the entire space as a giant canvas and brought together all the pictorial, decorative and architectural elements with a painter’s skill and vision. This compact volume offers a guide to the murals and their surroundings, elucidating their allegorical subjects drawn from classical mythology to emphasize the museum’s role as the guardian of fine arts.
