Jean Strouse’s “Family Romance” recounts Sargent’s relationship with the Wertheimers, a family that played a major role in ...

Asher Wertheimer was a Jewish tycoon who asked John Singer Sargent to paint him. The results are strange, slippery—and some ...

A radical new exhibition celebrates stars including Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart by combining subtly moving artworks with their own voices. The results are uncanny.

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In “Family Romance,” Jean Strouse conjures the singular relations between the portrait artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) ...

Did the first cave painters, thirty thousand years ago, get some special reward from the chief? Extra pebbles, maybe, or ...

36 x 33.5 cm. (14.2 x 13.2 in.) ...

In “Family Romance,” Jean Strouse conjures the singular relations between the portrait artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) and the Wertheimers, a prominent Jewish family whose commissions ...

53.3 x 40 cm. (21 x 15.7 in.) ...

Jean Strouse’s brisk, wise “Family Romance” takes on the painter’s relationship to the Wertheimers, a vast Jewish clan he immortalized on canvas.

"Sermon on the Mount" was to be the final panel of John Singer Sargent's mural cycle on world religion. He hardly even ...