Abstract
The Archives of American Art holds a large collection of John Singer Sargent’s letters. Most are notes he sent, not ones he received. As scholars, how are we to address the challenge of this partial conversation, or halfalogue? This essay calls upon researchers to bring all of their interpretive skills, visual and intellectual, to recontextualize such incomplete correspondence. It also asks readers to acknowledge their own artistry and imagination in any attempt to recreate the past, reminding them that a letter is in itself a work of art, composed and colored according to its recipient and moment.
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