Think about all the controversy that surrounded Robert Mapplethorpe's elegantly explicit photographs. To look back a century, esteemed portrait painter John Singer Sargent faced similar public ...

John Singer Sargent’s epic mural “The Triumph of Religion” at the Boston Public Library includes a panel titled “Church.” In it, a young woman symbolizing the Christian church holds a ...

novelists Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James, actress Ellen Terry and art patron Isabella Stewart Gardner all sat for him. Raised in Europe by an American expatriate family, Sargent attended ...

As a portrait of a marriage, it’s bizarre. I’m talking about the dual portrait John Singer Sargent painted in 1885 of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson. Louis, whose first novel, Treasure ...

John Singer Sargent is best known for his portraits of society figures, but he also painted a number of lesser-known people, including friends. An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

Wellington-based Robert McLeod is the featured artist for the Sarjeant Gallery's latest collection focus exhibition. The Scottish-born artist immigrated to New Zealand in the 1970s and has been ...