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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...