News
The Little Sargent Watercolor That Sold for $7M
The record-breaking sale of the artist’s “Gondolier's Siesta” shows collectors are still willing to wave their paddles for a truly exquisite specimen.
John Singer Sargent
Art Review
The Tender Specificity of John Singer Sargent
What comes through most strongly in the Met Museum exhibition is his humanistic bent: Sargent loved people, and it shows.
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.
Opinion
I Am Not a "Gypsy"
Often, there is a disconnect between the museum world and Roma representation. One exhibition at the National Gallery of Art proves that it doesn't have to be this way.
Books
How Venetian Glass Seduced American Artists a Century Ago
A lavishly illustrated, fascinating book explores the resurgence of Venetian glass and the ways it influenced American ideas about taste and beauty.
Art
Notes on Living a Translated Life
From the John Singer Sargent frontal nude painting of McKeller in Boston’s MFA, I’d imagined Thomas as tall and slender. Looking more closely, I can see that even 100 years ago a body like Thomas’s was not accidental.
Art
American Artists' Fraught Responses to the First World War
From critical to patriotic and everything in between, a vast exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts displays the full range of US artists' reactions to World War I.
Art
Stroll Through the Color and Light of an American Impressionist's Garden
As artists like Georges Seurat and Claude Monet were capturing the refinement of European gardens in quick brushstrokes, so did American Impressionists like Childe Hassam and William Merritt Chase turn to the cultivated landscapes around them for inspiration.
Art
How Artists Interpreted the Transformation of Paris into a City of Light
GREENWICH, Conn. — Everything was illuminated at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, from 5,000 electric lamps igniting the Eiffel Tower to the Grand Waterfall, a cascading fountain animated by colored lights.
Announcement
The Lights of Paris, Seen Through the Eyes of the Impressionists and Their Contemporaries
Bruce Museum's 'Electric Paris' features approximately fifty paintings, photographs, and drawings that explore the influence of artificial lighting on the Impressionists and their contemporaries. Expect a mix of European and American masters: Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent and Hen
Art
The Enveloping Darkness of John Singer Sargent’s Prints and Drawings
Rare examples of John Singer Sargent's printmaking are on temporary view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, demonstrating his interest in the expressive shapes of the human body and lithography's potential to show these figures in darkness and light.
Art
The Unsettled Legacy of John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent’s brilliance as a painter should be obvious to anyone with eyes. And yet a perennial caveat inevitably surfaces in much of the discussion that accompanies exhibitions of his work.