About This Artwork

John Singer Sargent
American, 1856-1925

Thistles, 1885/89

Oil on canvas
55.9 x 71.8 cm (22 x 28 1/4 in.)
Gift of Brooks McCormick, 1996.446

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in the Art Institute of Chicago, 2000, p. 84.

Judith A. Barter et al, American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 322-325, no. 170.

Judith A. Barter et al, The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2011), no. 35.

Ownership History

Artist's sale, Christie's, London, 24 and 27 July 1925, lot 198, old to David Croal THomson of Barbizon House, London; Charles Deering, Chicago; by descent to his daughter, Marion Deering (Mrs. Chauncey McCormick), 1927; by descent to her son Brooks McCormick, 1965; given to the Art Institute, 1996.