Olives at Corfu

Artist John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925)

CultureAmerican

Date1909

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions22 × 28 in. (55.9 × 71.1 cm)
Overall, Frame: 34 × 40 × 3 in. (86.4 × 101.6 × 7.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Macon and Joan Brock Collection of American Art

Object number2023.4.1

Collections

American Art before 1945

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 218

DescriptionThis is an oil on canvas painting that depicts a landscape of dense olive trees with the sea beyond.
ProvenanceRobert Langton Douglas (1864–1951), London Mrs. H. J. Lancashire, Boston To her daughter, Mrs. Lila Southgate To her daughter, Patricia Southgate (1928–1998) Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1984 Mr. and Mrs. Douglass Carmichael, Washington, DC The Macon and Joan Brock Collection of American Art, 2022 Exhibition HistoryExhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A., Royal Academy of Arts, London, January 14–May 13, 1926, no. 307. "A Shared Vision: The Macon and Joan Brock Collection of American Art," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, December 8, 2023 — March 10, 2024.Published ReferencesEvan Charteris, John Sargent (London: William Heinemann, 1927), 290. Charles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography (New York: W. W. Norton, 1955), 449, no. K092; 1957 ed., 359, no. K092. Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: The Complete Paintings; vol. 8, Figures and Landscapes, 1908–1913 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014), 8, 104, no. 1520.