John Singer Sargent’s Drawings Bring His Model Out of the Shadows Sketches by the great portraitist, shown together for the first time, illuminate the contribution of his African-American muse ...

A Living Immortal The famous Wertheimer portraits by John Sargent, American, are once more the nine days' talk of London. Extremely unflattering, scrupulously accurate, they portray the ...

Art History The One That Got Away: Why the Frick Doesn’t Have a Single John Singer Sargent Painting The art-collecting industrialist tried to commission a portrait from the famed artist, to no ...

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 from the National Gallery in Washington, is a welcome arrival ...

Born in Florence in 1856 to American parents, John Singer Sargent as a young boy lived a life of cultured leisure, touring the museums and galleries of Europe with his mother and attending the ...

Norton Museum of Art director Ghislain d’Humières on one of his favorite portraits by John Singer Sargent.

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 ...

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 ...

Art Was John Singer Sargent an Insufferable Snob? Sargent’s sitters were all rich enough to employ him — the nouveau riches or (less often) the aristocratic, though it hardly matters.

"Explores the art of John Singer Sargent in the context of nineteenth-century botany, gynecology, literature, and visual culture. Argues that the artist was elaborating both a period poetics of ...

The federal government and a non-profit arts organization are partnering to give U.S. artists a global canvas upon which they can share their works overseas.

ARTS BRIEFING: HIGHLIGHTS; ART: THE WYNNS' NEW SARGENT Arts Briefing column; Las Vegas casino owner Stephen Wynn and wife, Elaine, pay Sotheby's $8.8 million for John Singer Sargent painting ...