"Published to accompany an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, October 4, 2019 to January 12, 2020, and at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, February 28 to ...

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 ...

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.

Inspired in large part by two well-known paintings that caused quite a stir at their unveilings, Mark Arts’ current major exhibition focuses on fashion in fine art. “The jumping off point is the John ...

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 ...

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 ...

National Academy of Design, 1971: Registration Records. Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the ...

In the spring of 1888, New York socialite Eleanora Iselin welcomed the portrait artist John Singer Sargent into her home, feverish over the question of what she would wear. Eager for her expensive and ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new show “Sargent and Paris” (April 26–August 3) explores John Singer ...

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 ...

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 ...