Scott
 

Scott,

Is that the portrait where they were wearing the Oxford robes? Have you heard that story?

And I thought I had a problem with schlepping stuff around the world

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Tim,

My father teaches medical illustration at Johns Hopkins. The department invited me up a few years ago to look at the portraits that hang in various Hopkins buildings. When we walked into the medical library, there was a huge canvas of four learned gentlemen, probably wearing robes. I found it quite odd that one of them was placed in shadow, distinctly subordinated to the others, as if Sargent had some reason to cut him out. Nobody in our party knew why. It was also interesting to see the students giving us curious glances for taking an interest in such an old painting.

I'd be interested to know the Oxford robes story.

Scott, thanks for the above information. I am very interested.

Talking about dress, in the portrait of Elizabeth Chanler, the masterpiece at the Smithsonian, has anyone read a story about that black dress?

What a Buddha dresses
 

Sargent painted these two famous portraits a year apart; another one is Lady Agnew. These two portraits are very different in design.

With this in mind, I read in Beijing,(can American publishers supply us enough good books?) and found out an unusual trick: the dress she wears is he supplied, he is
Sargent the :santa:

;)

The Forum is asking the question of charging a fee to participate in this forum and wonder how many will want to return to threads like this one that ask questions, suggest intrique, mystery,and propose quizzes without eventual answers.

Thanks, Jim:

Many times I thought to make this entertaining, even with prize offered, like Wheel of Fortune or Jeopardy.

Like in one section, I asked an answer of six letter words started with letter "m". The answer is "mother". I intented to post on Mother's Day.

A tradition in China, especially on Lantern Festival, a week ago, is Chinese Carnival, when the major fun is riddles on lantern.

Please, more quizes! So that some people like me can have some different taste.

SB, you earlier wrote: Time to let us in on the secret. It doesn't appear that anyone is going to guess.

What I'm in a hurry is to write a book on comparison of words in English and Chinese, a breakthrough in learning method in both directions.

I'm looking for someone bilingual to edit my book in the English version.

Steven: I'm starting writing, thank, Cynthia for spending time to help me.

I just recall that I mentioned a book, which I'll look for soon. The eldest daughter is a head taller than her sister next to her. So, one of the purposes in this design, is to make a "four corner game".

The portrait Scott noticed at Johns Hopkins is in a book now: Sargent's later works, Vol.3.

Compare the paths of Repin, Sargent and Sorolla:
Repin declined a mural project, but Kramskoy and Sargent did not; Both Repin and Sargent are in the book of Art Through Ages, but Sargent's name is not in another art history book, Sorolla is not.
The art of Repin and his contemporary Russian artists is in line with character of Russian literature and art in that period: typical environment and characters, firm portraying by profound depiction in realism.
Some works by Sargent were criticized as superficial.
Sorolla started a first non-family portrait in 1907, a portrait of a King, while Sargent was quitting portraiture, telling Sorolla there are clients in London like his works;
Repin's name is praised by Stalin at the critical moment of the Soviet in 1941, to arouse the passion of patriotism; Due to managemental shortcoming, while we can visit Sorolla and Repin, Fechin, Norman Rockwell museums, but not a museum to Sargent.