Exhibition to explore renowned artist's links and inspiration from Worcestershire
The John Singer Sargent: An American in Worcestershire display at Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum is to celebrate the artist's visits to the county and its part in its history
A new exhibition launched at Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum is to look at how a Worcestershire village helped play a part in the late 19th and early 20th century work by a famous artist.
John Singer Sargent: An American in Worcestershire opened yesterday (17 January) and shows the story of Singer Sargent and the summers he spent in the county producing his pieces.
It's also been set-up to reflect the importance of what was known as the 'Broadway colony of artists' on Worcestershire’s artistic heritage, the circle which included the likes of Alfred Parsons, Francis Millet, Edwin Austin Abbey and Edward Elgar.
On the creating of the display, exhibitions curator for Museums Worcestershire Claire Cheshire said: "The exhibition starts with some of Single Sargent's most beautiful portraits which he was most famous for.
"Then we've also got some of his landscape work and that links directly to the Broadway colony of artists.
"It's quite a broad exhibition and what's lovely about it is obviously Broadway's in Worcestershire so it's got lots of lovely local links, there's links to Elgar to William Morris and we explore all of those through lots of different works of art."
The exhibition runs until the 14 June and involves works not previously seen in Worcester, with loans from Tate, British Museum, Ashmolean Museum and Houghton Hall.