Born in Florence, Italy to a New England doctor and wife, John Singer Sargent became a leading portrait and figure painter of subjects in international society during the Gilded Age. Late in his... Read full biography
Born in Florence, Italy to a New England doctor and wife, John Singer Sargent became a leading portrait and figure painter of subjects in international society during the Gilded Age. Late in his career, he was a leading proponent of watercolor as a respectable medium for finished work. His American... Read full biography
Born in Florence, Italy to a New England doctor and wife, John Singer Sargent became a leading portrait and figure painter of subjects in international society during the Gilded Age. Late in his career, he was a leading proponent of watercolor as a respectable medium for finished work. His American parents lived in Europe most of their lives and followed the social season between the capital cities. Traveling continuously with his parents, he showed early art talent and was encouraged by his... Read full biography
Born in Florence, Italy to a New England doctor and wife, John Singer Sargent became a leading portrait and figure painter of subjects in international society during the Gilded Age. Late in his career, he was a leading proponent of watercolor as a respectable medium for finished work. His American parents lived in Europe most of their lives and followed the social season between the capital cities. Traveling continuously with his parents, he showed early art talent and was encouraged by his mother, an amateur painter. In Rome at age 12, he studied with Carl Welsch, a German-American artist and in 1870 at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. In Paris, he was accepted in 1874 at the Ecole des Beaux Arts but switched to the less... Read full biography
Born in Florence, Italy to a New England doctor and wife, John Singer Sargent became a leading portrait and figure painter of subjects in international society during the Gilded Age. Late in his career, he was a leading proponent of watercolor as a respectable medium for finished work. His American parents lived in Europe most of their lives and followed the social season between the capital cities. Traveling continuously with his parents, he showed early art talent and was encouraged by his mother, an amateur painter. In Rome at age 12, he studied with Carl Welsch, a German-American artist and in 1870 at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. In Paris, he was accepted in 1874 at the Ecole des Beaux Arts but switched to the less academically oriented atelier of Carolus Duran, who had major impact on Sargent's style. Duran was an adventurous portrait painter who blended realism... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (444)
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Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South
2015
Pollack, Deborah C.
400 pages (color)
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
2011
McCullough, David
558 pages
Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880-1914 (Exhibition catalog)
2009
Stott Annette; Holly Koons McCullough et al
288 pages (color)
Lionel H. Pries, Architect, Artist, Educator: From Arts & Crafts to Modern Architecture
2007
Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl
384 pages (color)
An Impressionist Sensibility: The Halff Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2006
Harvey, Eleanor Jones
136 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1874-1882, Complete Paintings: Volume IV
2005
Ormond, Richard; Elaine Kilmurray
0 pages (color)
Fine American Art from 1845 to 1960 (Spanierman Gallery, LLC (Exhibition catalog)
2005
Reis, Mary Clare; Lisa N. Peters et all
0 pages (color)
John Singer Sargent Painting Childr
2004
Gallati, Barbara Dayer
256 pages (color)
Great Expectations John Singer Sargent Painting Children
2004
Gallati, Barbara Dayer
156 pages (color)
Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Circles of Influence, A Timeline
2004
Vose, Marcia (editor)
38 pages (color)
Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X
2003
Davis, Deborah
320 pages (color)
Sargent's Women
2003
Davis, Ormond and Kilmurray
0 pages
All American: Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection of the Flint Institute of (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Flint Institute of Arts
272 pages (color)
Artists of the Rockies: Inspiration of Lake O'Hara, Illustration 100 years of landscape painting by the Lake O'Hara area in the Canadian Rockies
2003
Gooch, Jane Lytton
152 pages (color)
Americans in Paris, 1850-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Oklahoma City Museum
128 pages (color)
John Singer Sargent: The Late Portraits; Complete Paintings, volume III
2003
Ormond and Kilmurray
0 pages (color)
Sargent and Italy (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Robertson, Bruce (editor)
208 pages (color)
American Beauty: Paintings from Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Beal, Graham
128 pages (color)
The Life and Work of Malcolm Parcel A Catalogue Raisonne
2002
Edwards, Paul Burgess
239 pages (color)
An American Point of View The Daniel J. Terra Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Kennedy and Bourguignon(essays
194 pages (color)
John Singer Sargent: Volume II Portraits of the 1890s
2002
Ormond, Richard; E Kilmurray
0 pages (color)
Painting the Century 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900-2000
2001
Gibson, Robin
0 pages
Painting Religion in Public: John Singer Sargent's Triumph of Religion
2001
Promey, Sally M
376 pages (color)
American Impressionists Abroad And at Home
2001
Weinberg, H Barbara; S Larkin
0 pages
Tranquil America: A Century of Painting, 1840-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Editor, Spanierman Gallery
0 pages
John Singer Sargent: The Sensualist (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Fairbrother, Trevor
176 pages (color)
Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Grabar, Oleg; Steven Caton
848 pages (color)
American Paintings: 1860-1940
2000
Greer, Gina; Andrea Smith
0 pages
American Drawings and Watercolors Metropolitan Museum: John Sargent
2000
Herdrich, Stephanie;B Weinberg
0 pages (color)
A Charmed Couple: The Art and Life Of Walter and Matilda Gay
2000
Rieder, William
0 pages (color)
Vose Art Notes Works on Paper
2000
Vose, Marcia L , editor
29 pages (color)
The Gilded Edge
2000
Wilner, Eli et al
0 pages (color)
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999
Editor, Smith College Museum
307 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Espana: American Artists and the Spanish Experience (Hollis Taggart Galleries) (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Boone, M Elizabeth
112 pages (color)
Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings
1998
Calo, Mary Ann
328 pages
American Dreams: Paintings and Decorative Arts from Warner Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Curry, David; Elizabeth O'Leary
78 pages (color)
John Singer Sargent : The Early Portraits (Volume One)
1998
Kilmurray, Elain; Ormond, Richard
304 pages (color)
John Singer Sargent
1998
Kilmurray, Elaine (ed)
0 pages (color)
The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent
1998
Little, Carl
0 pages (color)
The American Federation of Arts: Exhibitions Programs 1998 (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Padon, Thomas (intro)
79 pages (color)
Sargent Abroad: Figures and Landscapes
1997
Adelson, Warren; Donna Janis
254 pages (color)
American Visions The Epic History of Art in America
1997
Hughes, Robert
635 pages (color)
Uncanny Spectacle: Public Career of John Sargent
1997
Simpson, Marc/ Richard Ormond
192 pages (color)
Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years A Selective Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Addison Gallery
512 pages (color)
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
Inventing the Modern Artist Art and Culture in Gilded Age America
1996
Burns, Sarah
380 pages
The Landscape of Belief Encountering the Holy Land in 19th Cent American Art
1996
Davis, John
264 pages (color)
American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols)
1996
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin
877 pages (color)
Selections From the Permanent Collection: Southern Alleghenies
1996
Strueber, Michael (Director)
118 pages (color)
Angels of Art Women and Art in American Society 1876-1914
1996
Van Hook, Bailey
287 pages
The Art Institute of Chicago Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture
1996
Wood, James N/T Edelstein
160 pages (color)
Made in America Ten Centuries of American Art
1995
Adams, H. and Johnson, K.
192 pages (color)
Whistler and Montesquiou The Butterfly and the Bat
1995
Munhall, Edgar
176 pages (color)
Frederic Remington & Turn of the Century America
1995
Nemerov, Alexander
244 pages (color)
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
John Singer Sargent
1994
Fairbrother, Trevor
157 pages (color)
American Paintings at the High Museum of Art
1994
High Museum of Art
216 pages (color)
The Art of Watercolor (Revised Edition)
1994
LeClair, Charles
144 pages
American Realism
1994
Lucie-Smith, Edward
240 pages (color)
American Painters in the Age of Impressionism
1994
Neff, Emily/G T M Shackelford
144 pages (color)
Masters of American Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition From the American Renaissance to the Millenium
1994
Reynolds, Donald Martin
275 pages (color)
The Rockefeller Collection American Art (at San Francisco Museums Fine Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Simpson, Marc
315 pages (color)
Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art
1994
Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts
372 pages (color)
American Impressionism and Realis The Painting of Modern Life 1885-1915 (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Weinberg, H Barbara (others)
400 pages (color)
Women of Fashion French and American Images of Leisure 1880-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Weisberg, Gabriel P
188 pages (color)
Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Carr, Carolyn K
408 pages (color)
The Drawing Collection Stanford University Museum of Art
1993
Eitner, Lorenz (others)
418 pages (color)
Themes in American Painting Common Styles and Genres/A Reference
1993
Henkes, Robert
260 pages (color)
Freer: A Legacy of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Lawton, Thomas; Linda Merrill
272 pages (color)
Awash in Color Homer, Sargent and the Great American Watercolor (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Reed, Sue Welsh/Carol Troyen
266 pages (color)
The "New Woman" Revised Painting and Gender Politics on 14th Street
1993
Todd, Ellen Wiley
414 pages (color)
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art A Handbook of the Collection
1993
Ward, Roger and Patricia J Fidler (Compilers and Editors)
414 pages (color)
American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Adams, Henry (others)
495 pages (color)
A Nation's Legacy 150 Years of American Art from Ohio Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Columbus Museum of Art
198 pages (color)
Facing the Past 19th Century Portraits from Pennsylvania Academy
1992
Danly, Susan
104 pages (color)
Masterworks of American Impressionism from the Pfeil Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Gerdts, William H
282 pages (color)
Lasting Impressions: American Painters in France, 1865-1915 (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Gerdts, William H (essay); Helene Ahrweiler, Roger Mandle
286 pages (color)
A Nation's Pride Art in the White House
1992
Kloss, William (et al)
375 pages (color)
American Selections 1850-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Lublin, Mary
163 pages (color)
American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1992
National Gallery of Art
545 pages
The Lure of Italy American Artists and the Italian Experience (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Stebbins, Theodore E
470 pages (color)
American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art
1992
Strazdes, Diana
511 pages (color)
American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County
1991
Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick
510 pages (color)
American Watercolors From Metropolitan Museum of Art
1991
Howat, John K (foreward)
204 pages (color)
American Watercolors from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Koshkin-Youritzin, Victor
204 pages (color)
American Impressionists
1991
Montgomery, Elizabeth
112 pages (color)
American Impressionist Masterpieces
1991
Peters, Lisa N
119 pages (color)
Sadakichi Hartmann Critical Modernist, Collected Art Writings
1991
Weaver, Jane Calhoun (editor)
410 pages
The Lure of Paris: Nineteenth-Century American Painters and Their French Teachers
1991
Weinberg, H Barbara
295 pages (color)
American Drawings in the French National Collection, 1760-1945 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Wiesinger, Veronique; Clair Vaudevire; Pierre Rosenberg (Preface)
110 pages (color)
Masterpieces of American Painting
1991
Wilson, John
34 pages (color)
World Impressonism: The International Movement 1860-1920
1990
Broude, Norma (ed)
424 pages (color)
American Paintings and Sculpture Sterling & Francine Clark Institute
1990
Conrads, Martha C
219 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons
1990
Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface
430 pages (color)
Art in Bloom
1990
Foshay, Ellen M
80 pages (color)
American Masters Selections from the Gerald Peters Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Gerald Peters Gallery
114 pages (color)
Masterworks of American Impressionism
1990
Gerdts, William H
163 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
American Painting
1990
Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro)
319 pages (color)
Anecdotes of Modern Art From Rousseau to Warhol
1990
Hall, Donald/Pat C Wykes
377 pages
Venice/The Artist's Vision Guide to British and American Painters
1990
Halsby, Julian
223 pages (color)
Counterpoint Two Centuries of American Masters (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
112 pages (color)
Nothing If Not Critical Selected Essays on Art and Artists
1990
Hughes, Robert
429 pages
Americans and Paris (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Marlais, Michael Andrew
62 pages (color)
Facing History The Black Image in American Art 1710-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
McElroy, Guy C
190 pages (color)
The Spencer Collection of American Art/An Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Spanierman Gallery
64 pages (color)
Paris 1889 American Artists at the Universal Exposition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Blaugrund, Annette
304 pages (color)
Faces and Figures in American Drawings (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Bloch, E Maurice
99 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)