Confronting Elsie Palmer: John Singer Sargent as a Painter of Real Women Público
Hayes, Alexa Leisering (2010)
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Abstract
Abstract
Confronting Elsie Palmer: John Singer Sargent as a Painter of Real
Women
By Alexa L. Hayes
Studies John Singer Sargent's portrait Elsie Palmer
(1889-90: Colorado Springs
Fine Arts Center) not simply as a likeness, but as a
psychologically penetrating painting
of a complex individual. Visual analysis of preliminary sketches
and the final portrait
reveals Sargent's meaningful changes of composition, pose, hair,
scale, and painting
style. Investigates the biography of Elsie Mellen Palmer and her
relationship with her
parents, General William Jackson Palmer, an American railroad
pioneer, and Queen
Palmer, an American expatriate in England, through various sources
including previously
unexplored archival materials. Details Queen Palmer's immersion in
a close-knit art
circle that included Sargent, Ellen Terry, Henry James, and Alice
Strettell (Mrs. J.
Comyns Carr). Investigates Ightham Mote, the idyllic English manor
house where the
Palmers lived while embracing the ideals of the Aesthetic movement.
Illuminates how
Sargent represented Elsie as a person caught between America and
England, her mother
and father, girlhood and womanhood, and as an unwilling sitter for
Sargent's painting and
an uncomfortable participant in the life chosen for her.
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction 1
The Painting 6
The Sketches 12
Complications 23
The Palmer Family 25
The Setting 38
Family Connections 41
Who Was Elsie Palmer 47
Other Unwilling Sitters 53
Concluding Thoughts 59
Bibliography 63
Archival Materials 64
List of Figures 65
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