Ainu. Long Plain Prayer Stick. Wood, 7/8 x 14 3/8 in. (2.3 x 36.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Herman Stutzer, 12.214. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.12.214_bottom.jpg)
Ainu. Long Plain Prayer Stick. Wood, 7/8 x 14 3/8 in. (2.3 x 36.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Herman Stutzer, 12.214. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.12.214_top.jpg)
Long Plain Prayer Stick
Asian Art
This is one of many examples of Sargent’s lively, informal portraits in the medium of watercolor. Working outside the confines of his London studio, and without the restrictive requests of paying clients, he orchestrated his figure compositions with a desired effect in mind. Sargent stage-directed his familiar models Dorothy Barnard and his niece Rose-Marie Ormond (wrapped in a shawl), and arranged their parasols and dresses to foreground the patterns of tinted light and shadow on Dorothy’s voluminous white skirts.
CULTURE
Ainu
MEDIUM
Wood
DIMENSIONS
7/8 x 14 3/8 in. (2.3 x 36.5 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Asian Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
12.214
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Herman Stutzer
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Ainu. Long Plain Prayer Stick. Wood, 7/8 x 14 3/8 in. (2.3 x 36.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Herman Stutzer, 12.214. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.12.214_bottom.jpg)
IMAGE
bottom, storage, CUR.12.214_bottom.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2010
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