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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 arrangement between an artist and a patron can be a delicate one, filigreed with implicit understandings and potential hazards. Patrons often provide financial help in return for the chance to ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There are only a few days left to experience the Sargent and Paris exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum ...

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 ...