Media Alert: Two Press Previews Monday, 6/29 for John Singer Sargent and George Caleb Bingham
Left: John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925). The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy (detail), 1907. Oil on canvas. The Art Institute of Chicago, Friends of American Art Collection
Right: George Caleb Bingham (American, 1811–1879). Fur Traders Descending the Missouri (detail), 1845. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1933
MEDIA ALERT
Metropolitan Museum Celebrates Two American Masters—John Singer Sargent and George Caleb Bingham—in Press Previews, Monday, June 29
Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends (June 30 through October 4)—More than 100 compelling portraits by noted American painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) that focus on artists, actors, composers, and others in his circle of friends. Notable among them: artists Paul Manship, Claude Monet, Auguste Rodin; actors Edwin Booth, Ruth Draper,Eleanora Duse, Ellen Terry; composer Gabriel Fauré; writers Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, W.B. Yeats; celebrities Isabella Stewart Gardner, Dr. Pozzi, and Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau).
Remarks at 11 a.m.
Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham and the River (through September 20)—The first major retrospective in 25 years of George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) one of the foremost American genre painters of the 19th century, brings together for the first time 16 of his iconic river paintings, which are shown along with 40 of his masterful preparatory drawings. Largely self-taught, Bingham identified and codified a wide variety of Western character types—boatman, card player, dockhand, fiddler, fur trader, among others—who plied the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.
WHERE
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
WHEN
Monday, June 29, 10 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
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