Hirshler has published extensively on John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, Dennis Bunker, William Merritt Chase, Winslow Homer, and women artists and collectors. Erica Hirshler, an expert in late 19th and early 20th-century American painting, Dr. Sign up online at Eventbrite or call (978) 283-0455 x10.ĭr. Tickets are $10 CAM/SHM members $20 nonmembers. This program is sponsored by and offered in collaboration with the Sargent House Museum in celebration of their centennial anniversary. Go behind the scenes to learn about the ideas, logistics, and process of organizing this international exhibition, which will feature many of Sargent’s finest portraits with representative clothes of the period, including several of the actual garments he depicted in portraits. Join MFA curator Erica Hirshler for a sneak preview of her forthcoming exhibition, Sargent and Fashion, a major show opening in 2021 that examines the role of dress in the painter’s work. This episode is but one example of the manner in which Sargent manipulated fashion-and his sitters-in the service of his art. “The coat is the picture,” John Singer Sargent explained to one of his sitters in the summer of 1894, insisting that the gentleman wear a heavy woolen overcoat despite the warm temperatures and tugging it ever more tightly around him to attenuate his slender form. Erica Hirshler, Croll Senior Curator of American Paintings Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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