Alpine Pool  1907

Sargent’s unflagging interest in the effects of sunlight was challenged by the motif of flowing water. In depicting a brook at Purtud, Italy, he adopted a close vantage point and directed his gaze downward to the shimmering water and the rocks and foliage along the banks. The result is a nearly abstract arrangement of form and color. One critic’s description of Sargent’s t...