The famous Wertheimer portraits by John Sargent, American, are once more the nine days’ talk of London. Extremely unflattering, scrupulously accurate, they portray the immediate family of a ...
Wander the painting galleries of a major museum on either side of the Atlantic and chances are you’ll encounter John Singer Sargent. The reasons are as much geographic as artistic. Born in Europe to ...
In the spring of 1888, New York socialite Eleanora Iselin welcomed the portrait artist John Singer Sargent into her home, feverish over the question of what she would wear. Eager for her expensive and ...
John Singer Sargent, “Pailleron Children” (1880), oil on canvas 60 × 69 in (courtesy Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections, purchased with funds from the Edith M. Usry Bequest, in memory of her ...
John Singer Sargent, the iconic American painter behind some of Boston’s most beautiful murals, is severely underrated, and it goes back to the Victorian era. I’m here to give him his due. Just ...
Sargent had many of these male romantic friendships including writer Henry James, painter Auguste-Alexandre Hirsch, artist Paul Helleu, gynecologist Samuel Jean Pozzi (the source of one of his ...
Like a swank ocean liner of a bygone era, the John Singer Sargent exhibition, "Sargent and Spain," at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco (Feb.11-May 14) from the National Gallery in Washington, is a ...
NEW YORK — “Sargent & Paris,” just-opened at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the John Singer Sargent exhibition I‘ve been waiting for but never knew it. That’s partly because I‘ve never ...
A new South Shore Arts exhibit pays tribute to the prolific Edwardian artist John Singer Sargent, a well-traveled expatriate who was widely considered to be one of the leading portrait painters of his ...