Workmen at Carrara

Prints and Drawings

1911

John Singer Sargent
American, 1856-1925

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: John Singer Sargent
Title: Workmen at Carrara
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1911
Medium: Watercolor with touches of opaque watercolor and scraping over graphite on ivory wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower left, in pen and black ink: "John S. Sargent-Carrara"
Dimensions: 40.4 × 53.4 cm (15 15/16 × 21 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1933.507

Ronald McKnight Melvin, Five American Masters of Watercolor: Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Maurice Prendergast, John Marin, Charles Burchfield: May 5-July 12, 1981, Terra Museum of American Art (Evanston, Ill., 1981), p. 13 (ill.).

Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, “Five American Masters of Watercolor,” May 5-July 12, 1981.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Oct. 1, 1986-Jan. 4, 1987; also the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 4-Apr. 17, 1987.
London, Tate Gallery, “John Singer Sargent (1856-1925),” Oct. 15, 1998-Jan. 17, 1999, p. 235, cat.127 (ill.); also the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Feb. 21-May 31, 1999; and Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts, June 23-Sept. 26, 1999.
Art Institute of Chicago, “John Singer Sargent and Chicago’s Gilded Age”, June 27-Sept. 30, 2018, cat. 41, pp. 123, 172 (fig. 152), 183, 189, 190 (fig. 163), 204.

Annie Swan Coburn (1856-1932), Chicago, by Nov. 1932 [collection inventory in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.

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