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Mountain Fire

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Date

ca. 1906-1907

Artist

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)

Collection

Brooklyn Museum

Image Link

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/20383

Description

Although 'Mountain Fire' presents an expansive Alpine view, Sargent's attention to the enveloping effects of smoke and steam makes it one of his most abstracted watercolors. With this work he clearly offered a farewell nod to the British watercolor tradition as exemplified by Joseph Mallord William Turner's Alpine subjects of a century before, in which deep perspectives were articulated with transparent washes. Sargent evoked dense haze and smoke by adding opaque white to his washes and by freely allowing the bleeding edges of wet washes to suggest vaporous effects.
Descriptive medium: Opaque and translucent watercolor
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No known copyright restrictions

Image Credit

Courtesy of Brooklyn Museum

Location

The Alps

Medium

Tags

Mountains

Category

Landscapes & Seascapes

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