In Austrian Tyrol (1911): Art, History and Details

In Austrian Tyrol (1911) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is John Singer Sargent (American, born Italy, 1856–1925).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Although Sargent’s career was defined by his portraits of high-society patrons, privately he painted landscapes in watercolor and oil throughout his career. After the turn of the century, assured of his reputation, Sargent produced more landscapes than any other kind of painting. Alpine views were among his favorite subjects, but he avoided associating them with the rhetoric of the sublime. Instead, mountain views such as In Austrian Tyrol were closely cropped, often rendered from a low vantage point. The visual relationship between the shapes of the foreground rocks and the mountains themselves was what captured his attention.

Object facts

• Title: In Austrian Tyrol
• Date: 1911
• Creator attribution: John Singer Sargent (American, born Italy, 1856–1925)
• Culture: America
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: watercolor with traces of graphite
• Dimensions: Sheet: 29.9 x 45.2 cm (11 3/4 x 17 13/16 in.)
• Collection: DR - American 20th Century
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 1921.1734

Collection credit

Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of an Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 until Today at the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: [Printed by the Artcraft Printing Co.], 1937.

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