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"One thing I like about this one is Booth's intensity is very quiet and it's sort of echoed by the fact that there are embers in the fireplace behind him. The setting sort of enhances the mood of the painting," Hirshler said. "I like the combination of capturing a public figure in a private moment." The painting has only gone on public display twice before: for about a month in 1926 at Sargent's memorial exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and from late November 2003 to late February 2004 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Amon Carter was established by the will of Texas newspaper publisher, philanthropist and art collector Amon G. Carter. The museum opened in 1961, six years after Carter's death. The Booth portrait joins another Sargent in the museum's collection, an 1888 portrait of Alice Vanderbilt Shepard. ___ Online:
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