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 ...

Sargent painted “The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit” when he was 26. He never topped it. The greatest painting ever produced by an American was made in 1882 by a 26-year-old living in Paris. His name ...

Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002, no. 269. "European and American paintings ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Singer Sargent's Madame X (1883-84) and Liz Hurley in Versace (1994) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource/Scala, ...

Five exceptional portraits at Tate Britain's "Sargent and Fashion" reveal the painter's eye for dress. Installation view of "Sargent and Fashion" at Tate Britain ...

John Singer Sargent, “Pailleron Children” (1880), oil on canvas 60 × 69 in (courtesy Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections, purchased with funds from the Edith M. Usry Bequest, in memory of her ...

After two years of traveling, "Madame X" — the iconic 1884 portrait by John Singer Sargent — has returned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it's the star of a new exhibit ,"Sargent and Paris," ...

Wander the painting galleries of a major museum on either side of the Atlantic and chances are you’ll encounter John Singer Sargent. The reasons are as much geographic as artistic. Born in Europe to ...

John Singer Sargent, "Madame X" (1883–84), oil paint on canvas; The Metropolitan Museum of Art (© The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource/Scala, Florence; all images courtesy Tate) LONDON — “Will ...

Dismissed for decades by critics as a mere “fashion portraitist” of high-society ladies, Asta Norregaard is now the subject of a major new retrospective at Oslo’s National Museum. By Nina Siegal The ...