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More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Sargent, John Singer,     Portrait group -- Family     Architecture exterior -- Detail     Architecture exterior -- Domestic     Landscape -- Maine     Portrait male -- Blaney, Dwight     Occupation -- Art     Portrait female -- Blaney, Dwight, Mrs.,     Portrait female -- Blaney, Margaret ("Meg")     Portrait female -- Blaney, Elizbaeth ("Libby")     Occupation -- Domestic     Recreation -- Leisure     Painting

The Piazza, (painting).   Artist:  Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925, painter. Title:  The Piazza, (painting). Other Titles:  On the Verandah, (painting). Blaney Family, (painting). Dates:  1921 or 1922. Medium:  Watercolor on paper. Dimensions:  15 x 20 1/2 in. (38.1 x 52.1 cm) Inscription:  (Lower left:) to my friend Dwight Blaney John S. Sargent signed Description:  Portrait of the Blaney family seated on the verandah of their summer house in Maine. Dwight Blaney (1865-1944) is seated in a chair, reclining with his legs stretched out before him. He is smoking a pipe. His wife, Edith Hill Blaney, who is wearing a hat, is seated, facing away from her husband, and is sewing. Their daughter Margaret ("Meg") (b. 1898) is seated on bench against the house. Elizabeth ("Libby") (b. 1905) is seated on the edge of the porch. Both daughters are also sewing. Subject:  Portrait group -- Family Architecture exterior -- Detail -- Porch Architecture exterior -- Domestic -- House Landscape -- Maine -- Ironbound Island Portrait male -- Blaney, Dwight Occupation -- Art -- Artist Portrait female -- Blaney, Dwight, Mrs., Portrait female -- Blaney, Margaret ("Meg") Portrait female -- Blaney, Elizbaeth ("Libby") Occupation -- Domestic -- Sewing Recreation -- Leisure -- Smoking Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Anonymous Collection. Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Blaney, Dwight, until 1944. Blaney, David, Christie's, New York, New York Sale (Nov. 30, 1999), lot 62. References:  Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003, no. 584. McKibbin, David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956. Illustration:  Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003, pg. 249. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 81690548 Item information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 81690548 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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