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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Workmen at Carrara
    John Singer Sargent. Workmen at Carrara, 1911. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002259

    Workmen at Carrara

    by John Singer Sargent

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed recto, lower left, in pen and black ink: "John S. Sargent-Carrara"

    Provenance

    Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn, Chicago, by May 1, 1930 [Chicago 1930; see R4492]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933..

    Exhibition history

    Art Institute of Chicago, "Watercolors lent by Mrs. L. L. Coburn," July 24–Oct 12, 1930, no cat. 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.

    Publications

    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.).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    John Singer Sargent / American, 1856-1925
    Date
    1911
    Medium
    Watercolor with touches of opaque watercolor and scraping over graphite on ivory wove paper
    Dimensions
    40.4 × 53.4 cm (15 15/16 × 21 1/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    watercolor
    Style
    Impressionism
    Place
    United States
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection
    Accession no.
    1933.507

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