@7, it's essentially been the only articulate thing I can do today. I just stepped out of a meeting where I really couldn't form the words I desired. And thank you.
When I approached this ptg at the MFA last time I was there, I remembered that it was between the two vases depicted in it, noticed that I was nearly touching one, and kinda started crying - it's such an art history sucker punch.
@11: Once I move to Providence, I look forward to again spending more time studying this Sargent painting. For a realistic work, I find it to be quite abstract...the large black square of the shadow and that luscious red stripe of the curtain. To this day...17 years later, I'll never forget my experience of walking into that room in the MFA that housed the painting, along with a few others of his. Sargent is meticulous with faces and then goes to town in a luscious painterly fashion while painting fabric. And his handling of whites is simply brilliant. So much color, life and light in his whites.
Great post! It's interesting to see the "after" photo as well for comparison, posted on Equal Rights Washington's facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=…
that's just....underwhelming.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=…