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Monday, 26 January 2015 10:55

The Taft Museum of Art Loans John Singer Sargent Masterpiece to Traveling Exhibition

John Singer Sargent's portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson. John Singer Sargent's portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson. Wikipedia

One of the Taft Museum of Art's most distinctive paintings is on loan to an exhibition featuring John Singer Sargent that will travel to London, England, and New York. In exchange, Cincinnati art lovers will be able to view an intimate painting by Mary Cassatt, on loan from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Taft Museum's painting, "Robert Louis Stevenson" by John Singer Sargent, is being loaned to the exhibition "Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends." The show will be on view at the National Portrait Gallery in London from Feb. 12 to May 25. After that, it will travel to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where it can be viewed from June 30 to Oct. 4.

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