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Although best known for his portraits, John Singer Sargent was also an accomplished plein air (outdoor) painter. In this uncommissioned likeness of his longtime friend Chicagoan Charles Deering at his home in Florida, the artist harmonized portraiture and landscape, weaving the sitter into a tapestry of swift brushstrokes, warm and cool hues, and the area\u2019s rich vegetation. Dressed in white, Deering relaxes in a cane chair with tropical foliage around him as well as views of boats and blue sky in the distance. Sargent stayed with Deering for two months in 1917 while spending considerable time painting outdoors in both oil and watercolor.<\/p>\n","short_description":null,"dimensions":"72.4 \u00d7 53.3 cm (28 1\/2 \u00d7 21 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":53,"height":72,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":"Inscribed recto, lower left, in brown paint: To My Friend \/ Charles Deering; signed and inscribed recto, lower right, in brown paint: John S. Sargent Miami 1917.","credit_line":"Anonymous loan","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Judith A. Barter, et al., The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago<\/em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), 86\u201387, cat. 44 (ill.).\n\nAnnelise K. Madsen, et al., John Singer Sargent and Chicago's Gilded Age<\/em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), 17, 71\u201373, 84, 100\u20132, 205, cat. 47, fig. 70 (ill.).","exhibition_history":"London, National Portrait Gallery, Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends<\/em>, Feb. 12-May 25, 2015, cat. 76; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 29-Oct. 4, 2015 (New York only).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, John Singer Sargent and Chicago\u2019s Gilded Age<\/em><\/a>, July 1\u2013Sept. 30, 2018, cat. 47.\n\nMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston, Fashioned by Sargent<\/em>, Oct. 8, 2023\u2013Jan. 15, 2024, cat.; London, Tate Britain, Feb. 21\u2013July 7, 2024 (Chicago only).","provenance_text":null,"edition":null,"publishing_verification_level":"Web Cataloged","internal_department_id":21,"fiscal_year":null,"fiscal_year_deaccession":null,"is_public_domain":false,"is_zoomable":false,"max_zoom_window_size":843,"copyright_notice":null,"has_multimedia_resources":true,"has_educational_resources":false,"has_advanced_imaging":false,"colorfulness":26.5569,"color":{"h":189,"l":31,"s":47,"percentage":0.0022193444722232395,"population":20},"latitude":null,"longitude":null,"latlon":null,"is_on_view":false,"on_loan_display":null,"gallery_title":null,"gallery_id":null,"nomisma_id":null,"artwork_type_title":"Painting","artwork_type_id":1,"department_title":"Arts of the Americas","department_id":"PC-3","artist_id":36540,"artist_title":"John Singer Sargent","alt_artist_ids":[],"artist_ids":[36540],"artist_titles":["John Singer Sargent"],"category_ids":["PC-3"],"category_titles":["Arts of the Americas"],"term_titles":["oil paint (paint)","painting","Impressionism","Chicago","canvas","people","portraits"],"style_id":"TM-7543","style_title":"Impressionism","alt_style_ids":[],"style_ids":["TM-7543"],"style_titles":["Impressionism"],"classification_id":"TM-9","classification_title":"painting","alt_classification_ids":[],"classification_ids":["TM-9"],"classification_titles":["painting"],"subject_id":"TM-12075","alt_subject_ids":["TM-8810","TM-8658"],"subject_ids":["TM-12075","TM-8810","TM-8658"],"subject_titles":["Chicago","people","portraits"],"material_id":"TM-2451","alt_material_ids":["TM-3124"],"material_ids":["TM-2451","TM-3124"],"material_titles":["oil paint (paint)","canvas"],"technique_id":null,"alt_technique_ids":[],"technique_ids":[],"technique_titles":[],"theme_titles":[],"image_id":"e810d27d-57d8-89d0-49a6-87b1bbc68174","alt_image_ids":[],"document_ids":[],"sound_ids":[],"video_ids":[],"text_ids":[],"section_ids":[],"section_titles":[],"site_ids":[101],"suggest_autocomplete_all":[{"input":["8.2002"],"contexts":{"groupings":["accession"]}},{"input":["Portrait of Charles Deering"],"weight":3298,"contexts":{"groupings":["title"]}}],"source_updated_at":"2026-03-04T15:21:21-06:00","updated_at":"2026-09-01T03:00:25-05:00","timestamp":"2026-09-07T05:06:12-05:00"},"info":{"license_text":"The `description` field in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License (CC-By) and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu. All other data in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) 1.0 designation and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu.","license_links":["https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/zero\/1.0\/","https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/terms"],"version":"1.15"},"config":{"iiif_url":"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/iiif\/2","website_url":"http:\/\/www.artic.edu"}}