
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002259Workmen at Carrara
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.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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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