Book Review: John Singer Sargent - Figures and Landscapes
/The magnificent catalogue from Yale University Press of the paintings and drawing of John Singer Sargent comes to its conclusion with volume IX
Read MoreResisting the Modern
/John Singer Sargent is often simplistically dismissed as a picture-postcard portraitist. A new exhibition of his watercolors is a reminder of how strange and subversive--not to say beautiful--his work could be.
Read MoreAmerican Aristocracy | GODS OF COPLEY SQUARE | Magic II.
/Bohemian Back Bay was as key to Copley Square as aristocratic Back Bay and black artist models figured not only in Sargent's work, but in Fred Holland Day's too.
Read MoreAmerican Aristocracy: Gods of Copley Square - Magic 1
/A startling triptych illuminates the crossroads of social, racial, and sexual identity in the Copley Square of a century ago, as "The Gods of Copley Square" continues
Read MoreBook Review: Love, Fiercely
/He was a taciturn, bookish heir to staggering wealth; she was a high-spirited nonconformist 'new woman' - and, in a lost era of privilege and social progress, they were very much in love.
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