Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opinion of Charles Durham, restorer of works of art, who is associated with the new Fogg Art Museum, the many paintings of John Singer Sargent which now belong to Harvard and in fact the very large majority of all his works are in little danger of the early disintegration promised them according to D. V. Thompson Jr. '22, Instructor in Art at Yale...
...Thompson has stated that all the works of Sargent and many of those of Whistler will son be valueless because of serious cracking or fading of the paints used by the artists...
...Some or Sargent's paintings have cracked somewhat," he said, "but this can be prevented if proper care is taken in hanging and transporting the canvases. Mr. Sargent was careful not only in his artistic technique but also in mixing his oils. As painters always have done, he experimented sometimes with various unorthodox methods and pigments. He was very careful in working out his sketches. From this great care, however, arose his single technical fault, for in order to keep the outline workable from day to day, he could use paints which dried very slowly. Then, when the sketch finally...
...Some of Sargent's paintings which were brought here for an exhibition some time ago developed cracks when they were unrolled. Treated however, to make them pliable, they suffered no ill effects from this slight damage...
Birkenhead--Miller, Tyler v. Sargent--Ciullo, MacKillop