Amy Phipps Guest had a pioneer spirit—she aspired to be an aviatrix. Those plans were nixed, but that did not prevent her from bankrolling flights by Amelia Earhart. She also was a big supporter of ...

Inspired in large part by two well-known paintings that caused quite a stir at their unveilings, Mark Arts’ current major exhibition focuses on fashion in fine art. “The jumping off point is the John ...

Though it offers little in the way of Sargent’s artistic engagement with the city he called home for a decade, “Dazzling ...

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(AP) A Texas art museum announced Friday it had acquired a rarely displayed painting by John Singer Sargent that depicts Edwin Booth, the renowned 19th-century actor and brother of President Abraham ...

Since John Singer Sargent and Henry Clay Frick were contemporaries with sympathetic tastes, moving in elite circles, it’s surprising that they never got together for a sitting. The Frick Collection, ...

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"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new show “Sargent and Paris” (April 26–August 3) explores John Singer ...

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 ...

National Academy of Design, 1971: Registration Records. Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the ...