For the past nine months critics have been writing estimates of John Singer Sargent. All that can be said about a great man in the period immediately following his death has been said; but more ...

State legislators in 1922 passed an act ordering the removal of Sargent’s “Synagogue” painting by eminent domain, designating it for teaching art instead of public display. That legislation was later ...

Sargent's Mural Painting. Share ... in THE NEW YORK TIMES of June 17 about the amusing discussion held in a Swedenborgian convention concerning John S. Sargent's mural painting in the Boston ...

The Sargent murals are in keeping with this spirit … not with that of the finer, older and far more useful library.” More Must-Reads from TIME Cybersecurity Experts Are Sounding the Alarm on DOGE ...

The Boston Public Library houses many of Sargent’s preparatory works in their special collections department. But when it comes to “Sermon on the Mount,” there exists just one sketch. This faint ...

Sargent’s Boston murals were restored in 1953 and again in 2003 and 2004. Revealing his bold colors and the nuances of his lines, the restorations garnered further admiration for his style.

At the end of his career, Boston gave Sargent a legacy commission in the expanse of neo-classical murals that still adorn the museum’s rotunda. To me, they help taint his abundant gifts with a ...

The artist also spent years working on large-scale mural commissions for Boston establishments, including for the MFA, whose 600-odd Sargent works represent the most comprehensive assemblage of ...

The great painter John Singer Sargent, an American expat, is the subject of a new show at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. It reveals much about his methods and why his work remains relevant more ...

BOSTON — John Singer Sargent’s liquid, skittering brushstrokes are one of the glories of world art. “ Fashioned by Sargent ,” an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is this year ...

John Singer Sargent’s 1887 painting of the Boston socialite Mrs Charles E. Inches ... Sargent’s celebrated early portrait of an American-born Parisian socialite in a low-cut black dress, ...