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[AMERICAN ARTISTS] SARGENT, John Singer (1856-1925) 7 ALS to W. B. E. Ranken and Ernest Thesiger (ca. 1880-1915). Together 21 pp., 8vo.
Sargent's vents his frustration with portraiture in his letters to fellow painter Ranken: "Have you heard that I am in a bomb-proof shelter shooting indiscriminately anybody who shows a head? It is a mental illness that has grown upon me with too much portraiture...As a portrait painter yourself I hope it may be long before you reach this stage--but when you do, you will also take to a bomb-proof shelter." In the letter to the actor Thesinger, Sargent apologizes for the inadequacy of the portrait he has painted for him: "Conscience forbids my making money out of it..." -- WHISTLER, James A. McNeill (1834-1903). 2 ALS to John Bancroft, 5 December 1891, no date, ca. 1891 or 1892. Together 6 pages, 8vo. In contrast to Sargent, Whistler's 1891 letter expresses great pride in his Portrait of his Mother, which the French government had just asked him to donate to the Luxembourg Museum. He was especially pleased about this honor in light of John Ruskin's harsh attacks on him and his work. In the undated (ca. 1891 or 1892) letter, Whistler bouyantly promises to paint for Bancroft: "Perhaps you might go to the seaside--and find the picture you would like me to paint for you--and if we could only get away from this horrid London, we might follow you and do it right off! -- O'KEEFFE, Georgia (1887-1986). ALS to Fred Maxwell, 12 January 1969. 1 p., 4to. O'Keeffe thanks Maxwell for his letter about her painting Oak Leaves. "I laugh when I see it," she says, "because the leaves are not oak leaves at all." (10)
Sargent's vents his frustration with portraiture in his letters to fellow painter Ranken: "Have you heard that I am in a bomb-proof shelter shooting indiscriminately anybody who shows a head? It is a mental illness that has grown upon me with too much portraiture...As a portrait painter yourself I hope it may be long before you reach this stage--but when you do, you will also take to a bomb-proof shelter." In the letter to the actor Thesinger, Sargent apologizes for the inadequacy of the portrait he has painted for him: "Conscience forbids my making money out of it..." -- WHISTLER, James A. McNeill (1834-1903). 2 ALS to John Bancroft, 5 December 1891, no date, ca. 1891 or 1892. Together 6 pages, 8vo. In contrast to Sargent, Whistler's 1891 letter expresses great pride in his Portrait of his Mother, which the French government had just asked him to donate to the Luxembourg Museum. He was especially pleased about this honor in light of John Ruskin's harsh attacks on him and his work. In the undated (ca. 1891 or 1892) letter, Whistler bouyantly promises to paint for Bancroft: "Perhaps you might go to the seaside--and find the picture you would like me to paint for you--and if we could only get away from this horrid London, we might follow you and do it right off! -- O'KEEFFE, Georgia (1887-1986). ALS to Fred Maxwell, 12 January 1969. 1 p., 4to. O'Keeffe thanks Maxwell for his letter about her painting Oak Leaves. "I laugh when I see it," she says, "because the leaves are not oak leaves at all." (10)