Two Girls on a Lawn
John Singer Sargent American
Not on view
Sargent probably painted Two Girls on a Lawn at Fladbury Rectory, an old house he rented in Worcestershire, in the English countryside. His sister Violet is shown at left, wearing a black mourning dress as her father, Dr. FitzWilliam Sargent, had recently died. The woman in white is a family friend about whom little in known. In this work, Sargent was less concerned with capturing individual likenesses than with creating a daring two-dimensional pattern in black and white, against the broadly painted grassy background.
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