Home Fields

ca. 1885

John Singer Sargent American, 1856-1925

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American, Level 2, West Wing

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Title Home Fields

Artwork Date ca. 1885

Artist John Singer Sargent

Life Dates 1856-1925

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 28 3/4 × 38 inches (73 × 96.5 cm) Framed: 37 1/4 × 46 5/8 × 3 1/4 inches (94.6 × 118.4 × 8.3 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit City of Detroit Purchase

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 21.72

Markings

Signed Signed, lower left: To my friend Bramley | John S. Sargent

Inscriptions Inscribed, lower left: To my friend Bramley | John S. Sargent

Provenance

John Singer Sargent

until 1920, Frank Bramley (Worcestershire, England)

May 28, 1920, sale (Christie's, lot 131, London, England)

1920, lot 15064, M. Knoedler & Co. (New York, New York, USA). May 1921, John Levy Galleries (New York, New York, USA)

1921-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Burroughs, Clyde H. “Painting by Sargent Acquired.” Bulletin of the DIA 3, 1 (October 1921): pp. 4-6 (ill.).

Downes, William Howe. John S. Sargent: His Life and His Work. Boston, 1925, p. 138.

Charteris, Evan. John Sargent. London, 1927, pp. 84, 283.

Mount, Charles Merrill. John Singer Sargent: A Biography. New York, 1955, p. 445.

Mount, Charles Merrill. John Singer Sargent: A Biography. London, 1957, p. 355.

The Private World of John Singer Sargent. Exh. cat., Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1964, no. 35 (ill.).

Mount, Charles Merrill. “The English Sketches of John S. Sargent.” Country Life Magazine CXXXV (April 16, 1964): pp. 931-934 (fig. 1).

Mount, Charles Merrill. John Singer Sargent: A Biography. New York, 1969, p. 465.

Ormond, Richard. John Singer Sargent: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors. London, 1970, pp. 34, 243 (pl. 48).

Hoopes, Donelson F. The American Impressionists. New York, 1972, pp. 58-59 (pl. 20).

Lomax, James and Richard Ormond. John Singer Sargent and the Edwardian Age. Leeds, 1979, p. 38 (ill.).

American Impressionism. Exh. cat., The Henry Art Gallery. Seattle, 1980, no. 39.

Ratcliff, Carter. John Singer Sargent. New York, 1982 (pl. 137).

John Singer Sargent. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1986, pp. 177 (fig. 75).

Adelson, Warren, Stanley Olson, and Richard Ormond. Sargent at Broadway: The Impressionist Years. New York, 1986, p. 39 (pl. XII).

Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art. Tokyo, 1989, no, 72 (ill.).

McConkey, Kenneth. British Impressionism. London, 1989, pp. 72-73 (pl. 70).

Sargent. Exh. cat., Tate Gallery. London, 1998, pp. 29, 111-113, no. 31.

American Beauty: Painting and Sculpture from the Detroit Institute of Arts 1770-1920. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 2002, pp. 84, 86, no. 61.

Madsen, Annelise K. John Singer Sargent & Chicago's Gilded Age. Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 2017, pp. 152-154 (fig. 131).

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