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 ...

Amy Phipps Guest had a pioneer spirit—she aspired to be an aviatrix. Those plans were nixed, but that did not prevent her from bankrolling flights by Amelia Earhart. She also was a big supporter of ...

The great painter John Singer Sargent, an American expat, is the subject of a new show at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. It reveals much about his methods and why his work remains relevant more than a ...

One hundred years after American painter John Singer Sargent’s death, Paris's Orsay Museum opens a massive exhibit expected to be one of the blockbusters of the season.

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 ...

Nearly 40 years ago, the Whitney Museum presented John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) as a kind of cultural Zelig, an artist whose identity was keyed to the zeitgeist. The museum focuses on post-World War ...

John Singer Sargent's Madame X (1883-84) and Liz Hurley in Versace (1994) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource/Scala, Florence/Getty There couldn’t be two more fertile sources of fashion ...

Does any artist evoke the "Gilded Age" of late 19th-early 20th century America better than John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)? Most of Sargent's extraordinary portraits capture his subjects' assurance ...

Every portrait by John Singer Sargent is a character study, conveyed in energetic and sensuous brushstrokes and incorporating the artist’s masterful use of color, light, and shadow. But as an upcoming ...

Radiant Rembrandts, vibrant portraiture of everyday life and uncanny photographs in New York and Boston, to catch before they’re gone, come August and September. By Rachel Sherman The rich expatriates ...

Jean Strouse’s brisk, wise “Family Romance” takes on the painter’s relationship to the Wertheimers, a vast Jewish clan he immortalized on canvas. By Walker Mimms In Natalie Dykstra’s hands, the life ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The John Singer Sargent letters consist of 104 letters dating from 1887 to 1922. The letters provide limited insight into his later career through ...