Delve into Emily Sargent’s luminous watercolors in a talk with Met curator Stephanie Herdrich. Learn about the exhibition Emily Sargent: Portrait of a Family, which brings the artist’s work into focus, situating it within the creative, complex world of the Sargent family. Take a closer look at watercolors made by Emily Sargent (1857–1936), her older brother and renowned portraitist John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), and their mother, Mary Newbold Sargent (1826–1906), and hear how paths diverged for daughter and son, revealing the challenges women artists faced in the late 19th century.
Curator Talk—Emily Sargent: Portrait of a Family
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Contributors
Stephanie Herdrich, Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Painting and Drawing, The American Wing, The Met
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