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Young Kate Millet is the model for the painting John Singer Sargent is working on in her parents' garden. Everyone says she is posing well, even though she finds it very hard to stand still. Then, one of her father's friends arrives with his two daughters. They're older, taller and have lighter hair than Kate. Sargent decides to use them as models instead. Kate is devastated. Based on numerous letters and recollections from the period, Hugh Brewster's story describes Kate's disappointment, the many difficulties experienced by the painter through the long artistic process, Kate's reconciliation with him and how she is immortalized on canvas after all. Illustrated with over 35 of Sargent's paintings and sketches, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose recreates the 1880s milieu of the famed American painter during an extended trip to England, and the thoughts and days of a girl who was there alongside him.
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reviewed Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose: The Story of a Painting on April 04, 2013
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose: The Story of a Painting
In Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, Hugh Brewster has fictionalized the story of the creation of John Singer Sargent's best-loved painting in the voice of young Kate, the daughter of Frank and Lily Millet, who are Sargent's hosts one summer. It is a fascinating story. The reader glimpses the life of artists of the late 1880s and of Kate's reaction in particular. At first Sargent wants to paint Kate, but friends of the family arrive with two daughters.
Polly and Dolly have the fair hair Sargent is looking for, so as gently as possible, Kate is replaced. Despite her initial ambivalence about modellings, being removed from the painting crushes her and she struggles with her new "observer" status as the painting takes shape. There are many highs and lows as the summer and fall progress. Through the voice of his young but observant protagonist, Brewster makes accessible the rarified world of art, in particular this close community of artists and their families. Sargent's work, both finished paintings and sketches from his notebook, offer a feast for the eyes and are respectfully reproduced in page after page. Period photographs of the village and the Millet's home compliment the fine art. Brewster, the historian, provides a wealth of information at the back: information about the paintings, biographies of each individual in the story and a bibliography. And, yes, in the following year, Sargent does paint Kate's portrait. This is a beautiful book and a touching story.
Reviewed by Theo Heras in Canadian Children's Book News
Spring 2008 VOL.31 NO.2
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