Jean Strouse’s “Family Romance” recounts Sargent’s relationship with the Wertheimers, a family that played a major role in ...
Did the first cave painters, thirty thousand years ago, get some special reward from the chief? Extra pebbles, maybe, or ...
Asher Wertheimer was a Jewish tycoon who asked John Singer Sargent to paint him. The results are strange, slippery—and some ...
In 2001, the biographer Jean Strouse happened upon an exhibition of paintings by John Singer Sargent that featured twelve portraits of the Wertheimers ... in an expansive gesture,” his expression ...
The Boston Public Library's Triumph of Religion gallery includes a mural that the city's early Jewish community took issue ...
Some of the most celebrated Shakespeare actors sat for portraits that record their movements and delivered soliloquies.
In “Family Romance,” Jean Strouse conjures the singular relations between the portrait artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) ...
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 ...
Murakami’s new novel, translated by Philip Gabriel, works variations on a theme he has visited before: A high school loner ...