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(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from Field, British Columbia
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from Field, British Columbia

correspondent (Florence, 1856 - 1925, London)
Date31 August 1916
Place MadeField, British Columbia, Canada, North America
MediumInk on paper
Dimensions26.6 x 21 cm (10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.)
ClassificationsManuscripts
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.003955
eMuseum ID726637
Other NumberU27w186
EmbARK ObjectID24703
TMS Source ID9037
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryThis letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner describes Sargent’s painting of Yoho Falls, in the Canadian Rockies, a work now hanging in the Blue Room of her museum: “I have done a picture of a fantastic waterfall . . . and I am off camping to another place near here where I expect to find other awful sights—whether to your liking or not you shall decide.” Like his friend Henry James, John Singer Sargent renewed his professional energies through travel.