Word: sargent
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Auguste Rodin called John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) the "Van Dyck of our times." Sargent was the unrivaled recorder of male power and female beauty in a day that, like ours, paid obsessive court to both. He could make old money look dashing and paint the newest cotton-reel magnate as though he were descended from Bayard. Sixty years after his death, his "paughtraits" (as Sargent, who kept swearing he would give them up but never did, disparagingly called them) provoke unabashed nostalgia. In his Belle Epoque sirens, in the mild, arrogant masks of his Edwardian gentry, are preserved...
Political consultant Jack Flannery, a former aide to Republican Governor Francis Sargent, called the impending appointment less a victory for the state's Republicans than "a victory for Massachusetts Reaganites...
...exchange for the Russian paintings, the U.S. will send 65 American paintings from approximately the same time period--including works by Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent--to Leningrad and Moscow museums...
Registrar Sargent Kennedy '28 defended the decision at the time, saying, "It doesn't make a great deal of sense to continue the all-male sections in Lamont. After all, this is a joint education...
...Catholic black, to an intimidating silver wine cooler half the size of a Jacuzzi; from Johan Zoffany's courteous but plainspoken portrait of a plump earl on the Grand Tour raising his hat to shield himself from the Florentine sun, to the boot-licking Edwardian rodomontade of John Singer Sargent's huge portrait of the Duke of Marlborough and Consuelo Vanderbilt; from a marble mock-Greek portrait by the sculptor Francis Chantrey of two woodcocks he had shot at Holkham Hall, to the Calke State Bed, a sumptuous four-poster whose hangings of gold-embroidered blue-and-cream silk were...