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John Singer Sargent is a minor character in the third season of HBO's "The Gilded Age"—but he was the major high society ...
There have been countless retrospectives of portraitist John Singer Sargent, but now the 19th century painter is being shown in a brand new light.
John Singer Sargent, “Madame X” (1883–84), oil paint on canvas; The Metropolitan Museum of Art (© The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource/Scala, Florence; all images courtesy Tate) ...
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was born in Florence, Italy to American Parents, ... The papers of painter John Singer Sargent were digitized in 2006 by the Archives of American Art, and total 286 ...
Around 1907 Sargent largely gave up portraiture to paint earnest, unmemorable war pictures and bizarre biblical murals for the Boston Public Library, imagining himself as heir to the great public ...
John Singer Sargent Watercolors, ... Though he is best known for his portraits and subject pictures, Sargent reinvented himself in the 20 th century with a mastery of the watercolor medium.
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 ...
This summer, the traveling show “Great Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children,” on view at the Portland Art Museum, doesn’t come close to the connoisseur’s delight of ...
John Singer Sargent, "Ilex Wood at Majorca with Blue Pigs,” 1908. ... Two pictures of the famous dancer Carmen Dauset Moreno are the closest he gets to proper society portraits, though even the most ...
John Singer Sargent made his first trip to Spain in 1879. ... The light in Spain is notoriously bright, and Sargent’s daytime pictures are as arresting as his dark interiors and night pictures.