This morning Susan and I and our friends Jack and Ann Ricco drove in to see the Museum of Fine Arts' exhibit of John Singer Sargent water colors.  It was truly a wonderful experience.  I'll let the art speak for itself.  All the images were taken within 3-4 feet of the original, no flash, and here they are for your enjoyment.  (I'll post a second posting tomorrow of some of the other images taken at the museum)  All the images are water colors by Sargent, unless identified otherwise.


: Corner of the Church of San Stae, Venice
1909

Venice: Under the Rialto Bridge 
1909

Head of an Arab
 1891

Dolce Far Niente
 1907

Simplon Pass: Crags
1909-11

The Master and His  Pupils (oil)
1914

Simplon Pass: Chalets
1909-11

The Tramp (detail)
1904-6

Melon Boats
1905-6

The Cashmere Shawl
1911
This was breathtaking. 

Carrara: Little Quarry
1911

An Out-of-Door Study (oil)
1889
I love the raised pinkie, and the bored girlfriend/lover/?

An Artist in His Studio (oil)
1904

Florence: Fountain, Boboli Gardens
1910
(I practiced my trombone in the Boboli gardens!)

And a few water colors in the exhibit not by Sargent:

Edward Darley Bolt  (American)
Venice: Morning on the Grand Canal
1910
Water color with no limitations. 

Edward Darley Bolt
East River, New York
1911
As great a water color as I have ever seen
 

Aaron Augustus Healy (oil)
John Singer Sargent
1907
This is a detail of a half portrait of Sargent

Attributed to William Callow (English)
View on the Rhine
Late 19th. Cent.

John Ruskin (English)
Interior of Lucca Cathedral
The great art critic was a wonderful artist as well
I like what the caption said about him, that
"detail was holy to him"

John Henry Mole
At the Stile (detail
1871

a water color with the details of a
Watteau  or a Fragonard.
What a marvel of time and technique, with every stone and blade of grass
given its due.  And, unfortunately, upon a rather unexceptional subject.