Despite living in England from 1886 onward, John Singer Sargent maintained a lasting friendship with landscape artist Dwight Blaney and his wife Edith, who lived on Ironbound Island, Maine. Sargent visited the Blaney family several times, making at least seven works there. Sargent’s early 1920s watercolor drawing On the Verandah, for example, shows Dwight, Edith, and their daughters, Margaret and Elizabeth, in a moment of domestic bliss—one that only a close friend would be able to capture—while his 1922 oil painting The Artist Sketching shows Dwight contemplating the magnificence of nature in front of his portable easel. Though the Addison’s two watercolors are separated by more than 20 years and were likely made in very different locales, they nonetheless demonstrate a shared aesthetic sensibility, in which the elements of volume and light play equally important roles in the translation of the landscape into a watercolor drawing.