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

Six watercolors that are part of a show of John Singer Sargent paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, have special meaning to John F. Kennedy’s family. By Randy Kennedy Art Review ...

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

Before ‘Madame X,’ John Singer Sargent was even more dazzling. The Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys the first 10 years of a precocious painter getting his start in Paris.

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"John Singer Sargent loved people, and it shows," said Lisa Yin Zhang in Hyperallergic.Born to American parents who'd become cosmopolitan wanderers, the painter was only 18 when he moved from ...

John Singer Sargent, “In the Luxembourg Gardens” (1879), oil on canvas (image courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art) It is a wonder to see Sargent’s “Madame X” — among the 19th century ...

Before 'Madame X,' John Singer Sargent was even more dazzling. Philip Kennicott. Sat, May 31, ... It is an arresting image, but one that embodies the best and worst of Sargent’s art.