Camp and Waterfall
1916
Though John Singer Sargent was the darling of high-society portraiture, this 1916 watercolor shows him completely letting his hair down in the Canadian Rockies. He sets up a cozy camp of white canvas tents right at the foot of a massive, misty waterfall, using quick, wet-on-wet brushstrokes to capture the rugged purple and brown cliffs. It is a fantastic example of how this academic master could switch from painting stiff aristocrats to capturing the wild, breezy essence of nature with just a few splashes of color.
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- Watercolor
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