Though it offers little in the way of Sargent’s artistic engagement with the city he called home for a decade, “Dazzling ...

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 ...

At the Museum of Fine Arts, the frothy ‘Fashioned by Sargent’ explores’ the artist’s painterly gifts and surface obsessions. “Fashioned by Sargent,” the MFA’s frothy blockbuster of unabashed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Long before he turned his brush toward society’s upper crust, John Singer Sargent was just another artist trying to make his name in 19th-century Paris. He had arrived in 1874 to study at the ...

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 ...