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Ryefield Beach, Ironbound Island, Maine, 1922
15¼ x 20¾ inches (sight size)
Signed and dated lower right: John S. Sargent 1922
Provenance
Dwight Blaney, Boston, Massachusetts
Richard Blaney, son of above, Bar Harbor, Maine
Private collection, by descent from above
Exhibited
St. Botolph Club, Boston, Massachusetts, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by John S. Sargent, November 20–December 2, 1922
Association Franco-Américaine d’Expositions de Peinture et de Sculpture, Hôtel de la Chambre Syndicale de la Curiosité et des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France, Exposition d’Art Américaine. John S. Sargent, R.A., Dodge Macknight, Winslow Homer, Paul Manship, May 18–June 25, 1923 (as Ryefield Beach)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late John Singer Sargent, November 3–December 27, 1925 (as Ryefield Beach)
Literature
Exposition d’Art Américaine. John S. Sargent, R.A., Dodge Macknight, Winslow Homer, Paul Manship (Paris: Association Franco-Américaine d’Expositions de Peinture et de Sculpture, 1923), 26, no. 33. (as Ryefield Beach)
A Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late John Singer Sargent (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1925), 23, no. 81. (as Ryefield Beach)
William Howe Downes, John S. Sargent: His Life and Work With An Exhaustive Catalogue of His Works (London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1926), 339. (as Ryefield Beach)
Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1914–1925, Complete Paintings, vol. 9 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016), 22, 27, 275, 319, no. 1903.
Related Works
Stream and Rocks, ca. 1901–8, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on white wove paper, 10 x 14 inches; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
The Artist Sketching, 1922, oil on canvas, 22 x 28 inches, signed and dated lower left; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Note
In July of 1922 John Singer Sargent and his sister stayed with the painter Dwight Blaney and his family on Ironbound Island, Maine. It’s during this time that Sargent created this depiction of Ryefield Beach, situated on the west coast of the island.
