Lunder-Whistler Public Lecture: John Singer Sargent’s Women in White
Published: 16 April 2019
Thursday 23 May 2019
Thursday 23 May 2019
5.30pm
Fore Hall, University of Glasgow
Admission free – all welcome
This year's lecture will be delivered by Dr Erica E. Hirshler, Croll Senior Curator of American Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA.
Dr. Hirshler’s illustrated lecture will trace Sargent’s women in white from his early oil Fumée d’Ambre gris to such late watercolors as Simplon Pass: At the Top.
“One Sargeant doesn’t make a battalion.” So quipped Harry Woods, British academician and painter of Venice, apparently reassuring Whistler after a display of Sargent’s silvery Venetian street scenes and interiors in the early 1880s. It was not with silver, however, but with white that Sargent confirmed his talents with paint, using luscious strokes to create images of women that reinvented portraiture. Draping, wrapping, and folding lengths of fabric, Sargent turned his human subjects into sculptures and landscapes.
Followed by a drinks reception in the Hunterian Art Gallery.
The Lunder-Whistler public lecture series is jointly hosted by History of Art (SCCA) and The Hunterian and is supported by the Lunder Foundation.
The Fore Hall is located by the University Chapel.
Image: John Singer Sargent, Simplon Pass: At the Top, c. 1909-11. Image courtesy Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The Hayden Collection—Charles Henry Hayden Fund.
First published: 16 April 2019
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