Charles Mount

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Charles Merrill Mount (1928-1995) was an American artist. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1928 as Sherman Merrill Suchow, he later changed his name and studied at the Art Students League of New York. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1956 and travelled to Europe where he worked in Italy, France, Britain and Ireland. He returned to the United States in 1969, and worked in New York and Washington D.C. He specialised in portraits but also produced landscapes and streetscapes in oil and watercolor as well as charcoal drawings. He was interested in art history and published biographies of John Singer Sargent (1955), Gilbert Stuart (1964) and Claude Monet (1966). His career and personal life was marred by untreated bipolar disorder and a controversial later life. Mount was convicted twice in the late 1980's on charges related to the theft of historic documents from the Library of Congress and the National Archives, and served several years in prison. He died in 1995 in Washington D.C. He is survived by five children from two marriages.


Charles Mount, Detail of the gardens at Versailles, oil on canvas, 1960
Charles Mount, Detail of the gardens at Versailles, oil on canvas, 1960
Charles Mount, Painting of Venetian canal, oil on canvas, 1960
Charles Mount, Painting of Venetian canal, oil on canvas, 1960


Publications

1955. John Singer Sargent: A Biography. New York.

1963. The Irish career of Gilbert Stewart. Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, Vol. VI.

1964. Gilbert Stuart: A Biography. New York

1964. Carolus-Duran and the Development of Sargent, The ART Quarterly, Number 4.

1966. Monet, A Biography. New York.

1972-3. November 24, 1873, The Precise Moment of Impressionism: Claude Monet's "The Bridge at Argenteuil" at the National Galley of Art in Washington, D.C. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Vol. 71-2, p. 508-547.

1972-3. The Rabbit and the Boa Constrictor: John Singer Sargent at the White House. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Vol. 71-2, p. 618-656.

1973-4. The Works of John Singer Sargent in Washington. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Vol. 73-4, p. 443-492.


Paintings

Self-portrait, 1960, in the Collection of the University of Limerick http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:HLLfZ-H2j_0J:www.ul.ie/visualarts/nspci_m.html+Charles+merrill+mount+artist&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=33&gl=ie


Archive material

Smithsonian Archives of American Art Charles Merrill Mount papers relating to Gilbert Stuart, [ca. 1950-1960]