{"id":7660,"date":"2017-10-04T10:49:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T15:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/?p=7660"},"modified":"2017-10-04T10:49:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T15:49:49","slug":"richard-ormond-lectures-on-john-singer-sargent-as-official-war-artist-on-october-6-at-the-frist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/2017\/10\/richard-ormond-lectures-on-john-singer-sargent-as-official-war-artist-on-october-6-at-the-frist\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Ormond Lectures on John Singer Sargent as Official War Artist on October 6 at the Frist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7663\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2593\/2017\/10\/Ormond_R.L._Boston_Globe.jpg\" alt=\"Ormond,_R.L.,_Boston_Globe\" width=\"406\" height=\"277\" \/>John Singer Sargent\u2019s engagement as an official war artist during the First World War is an involved and protracted story. It led to the creation of his masterpiece\u00a0<em>Gassed <\/em>(1919), a highlight of the Frist Center\u2019s current exhibition\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fristcenter.org\/calendar\/detail\/world-war-i-and-american-art\"><em>World War I and American Art<\/em><\/a>, and to a sequence of remarkable watercolors painted near the front line. It was followed by\u00a0<em>General Officers of World War I <\/em>(1922)<em>, <\/em>a group portrait of British and Commonwealth commanders.<\/p>\n<p>In his October 6 lecture, &#8220;Mr. Sargent Goes to War,&#8221; Richard Ormond, Commander of the British Empire, places these works in the context of Sargent\u2019s career by analyzing the artist\u2019s response to the horrors of war, tracing the sources of his inspiration, and charting the stages of his artistic process.\u00a0 This lecture, held at 6:30 pm at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts on the opening day of the exhibition,\u00a0 is supported in part by Vanderbilt&#8217;s Department of History of Art.<\/p>\n<p>Ormond is a former deputy director of London\u2019s National Portrait Gallery and former director of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England. A great-nephew of John Singer Sargent, Ormond is currently director of the Sargent catalogue raisonn\u00e9 project, as well as co-author of the nine-volume Sargent survey published by Yale University Press. Ormond has curated many Sargent exhibitions, including the Met\u2019s\u00a0<em>Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends<\/em>\u00a0(2015). His books on nineteenth-century British art include studies of Edwin Landseer, Frederic Leighton, George Frederic Watts, and Franz Xaver Winterhalter, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Photo of RIchard Ormond in front of John Singer Sargent&#8217;s <em>General Officers of World War I<\/em> (National Portrait Gallery, London)<em>, <\/em>courtesy<em> Boston Globe<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Singer Sargent\u2019s engagement as an official war artist during the First World War is an involved and protracted story. It led to the creation of his masterpiece\u00a0Gassed (1919), a highlight of the Frist Center\u2019s current exhibition\u00a0World War I and American Art, and to a sequence of remarkable watercolors painted near the front line. 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