1888
oil
canvas
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Mrs. Charles Deering (Marion Denison Whipple) is a 1888 oil by John Singer Sargent, a American Impressionism work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
You see a woman sitting with her arm on a chair, looking at you. She's dressed nicely, with lace on her dress. The painter, John Singer Sargent, was good at painting faces and hands. He learned to do this well when he was a student in Paris, which helped him with this portrait. Check out the work of artist John Singer Sargent.
The sitter was the wife of Charles Deering, Chicago businessman, important benefactor of the Art Institute, and lifelong friend and patron of artist John Singer Sargent. In this half-length portrait, the painter depicted Marion Deering seated with her right arm resting on a chairback, her eyes engaging the viewer. Sargent rendered her face and hand with a high degree of finish, skills he had fine-tuned in the 1870s while a student in Paris. The broader handling of paint in her dress and its lace embellishments signals Sargent’s facility with the tactile and expressive possibilities of paint.…
Art Institute of Chicago, John Singer Sargent and Chicago’s Gilded Age , July 1–Sept. 30, 2018, cat. 16.
Judith A. Barter, et al., The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), cat. 78. Annelise K. Madsen, et al., John Singer Sargent and Chicago's Gilded Age , exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), 92–93, 131, 203, cat. 16, fig. 62 (ill.).
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John Singer Sargent (; January 12, 1856 – April 15, 1925) was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Belle Époque and Edwardian-era luxury.
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