"John Singer Sargent loved people, and it shows," said Lisa Yin Zhang in Hyperallergic. Born to American parents who'd become ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys the first 10 years of a precocious painter getting his start in Paris.

The art-collecting industrialist Henry Frick tried to commission a portrait from the famed artist, to no avail.

NEW YORK — “Sargent & Paris,” just-opened at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the John Singer Sargent exhibition ... reintroduces a familiar artist as a gifted naif, hungrily ...

“Sargent and Paris” at the Met shows how a young John Singer Sargent found his footing ... which shed light on the artist’s performative, collaborative process).

intent on becoming an artist. It didn’t take long. By 1882, he was John Singer Sargent, “the most-talked about painter” in the most important nexus of the Western art world, as one critic ...

This is what Sargent captured in his paintings: that beautiful particularness of each of us. John Singer Sargent, “Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau)” (1883–84), oil on canvas John ...

An ambitious young artist, an amoral beauty. Hamish Bowles looks at the portrait that caused a scandal and almost ruined two ...

After two years of traveling, “Madame X” — the iconic 1884 portrait by John Singer ... paintings, or nymphs and other fantastical creatures. The reception for the painting was so bad ...

The rich expatriates Sargent painted in London were dismissed as “dollar princesses.” A new exhibition looks beyond that label to their achievements and inner lives. One hundred years after John ...

Conjure a painter who possessed all the qualities of a true bon vivant – youthful charm, sophistication, good looks, and bold ...