PBS

The unveiling of painter John Singer Sargent’s unsung muse

When John Singer Sargent was commissioned to paint a series of gods and goddesses at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, he turned for inspiration to Thomas McKeller, a young black model. Little has been ...
The Boston Globe

At the MFA, a new show reveals John Singer Sargent’s passion for fashion — in service of art

‘Fashioned by Sargent,’ opening Oct. 8, features more than a dozen dresses and accessories alongside the paintings that depict them. Lady Helen Vincent, a British socialite John Singer Sargent painted ...
The Boston Globe

A new study of John Singer Sargent views the painter through a 21st century lens

Acclaimed and handsomely compensated by the Edwardian upper classes for brilliant portraits that captured their privileged lifestyle, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) lived into the age of Cubism, when ...
The Tufts Daily

‘Fashioned by Sargent’ masterfully invites viewers to step into the artist’s shoes

In 1888, famed painter John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) hosted his first solo exhibition at the St. Botolph Club in Boston, where he displayed some of what would later be deemed his most iconic works.
The New York Times

John Singer Sargent

Radiant Rembrandts, vibrant portraiture of everyday life and uncanny photographs in New York and Boston, to catch before they’re gone, come August and September. By Rachel Sherman The rich expatriates ...
Hyperallergic

The Unsettled Legacy of John Singer Sargent

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 ...
Untapped Cities

Prized John Singer Sargent Painting Will Return to The Players Club in Gramercy Park

The financially beleaguered The Players club had some good news yesterday. A prized John Singer Sargent painting of one of its founders, Joseph Jefferson, will be returned by the end of August. The ...
Richmond

VMFA receives Norman Rockwell, John Singer Sargent paintings and gift worth nearly $60 million from McGlothlin family

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced that longtime patrons James and Frances McGlothlin gifted the museum a sizable donation of artwork and funds worth an estimated $60 million. The McGlothlin’s ...
CNN

Was this 19th century portrait painter also the first celebrity stylist?

In the spring of 1888, New York socialite Eleanora Iselin welcomed the portrait artist John Singer Sargent into her home, feverish over the question of what she would wear. Eager for her expensive and ...
Artnet

Was John Singer Sargent a Virtuoso Draughtsman? A New York Exhibition Makes the Case—But Fails to Convince

In a 1923 cartoon, a bearded, middle-aged John Singer Sargent ascends the stairs of London’s National Gallery, greeted by a pantheon of artists including Gainsborough, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, and ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Family Romance’ Review: John Singer Sargent and His Patrons

The arrangement between an artist and a patron can be a delicate one, filigreed with implicit understandings and potential hazards. Patrons often provide financial help in return for the chance to ...