The exhibition examines a crucial decade in the career of this portraitist of the bourgeoisie, who combined artistic daring ...

It inspired a blockbuster museum exhibition and the new season of The Gilded Age. But why was the 1884 portrait "Madame X" so shocking?

"John Singer Sargent loved people, and it shows," said Lisa Yin Zhang in Hyperallergic. Born to American parents who'd become ...

The art-collecting industrialist Henry Frick tried to commission a portrait from the famed artist, to no avail.

John Singer Sargent was just 18 when he arrived in ... writers like Henry James; and artists like Monet, Renoir, and Rodin. Portraits of and by many of those very figures are on view in Sargent ...

John Singer Sargent is a great artist. Great not only as in eye-catching, dazzling, eminent, and profound, but also great as in worthy of a spot on art’s Olympus. Yes, he’s famous for ...

The famous Wertheimer portraits by John Sargent ... might be given a room to themselves. Like many of the greatest American artists, Sargent is hardly American at all, except in blood.

a single painting and a single scandal in the life of the young American artist. In 1884, a decade after he had arrived in Paris as a precocious 18-year-old, John Singer Sargent unveiled a ...

So, thank you, John Singer Sargent. You’ll never meet me, but when I look at the world through your eyes, it’s almost like I know you. —When she’s not fangirling over her favorite artists ...

NEW YORK — “Sargent & Paris,” just-opened at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the John Singer Sargent exhibition ... reintroduces a familiar artist as a gifted naif, hungrily ...