Word: sargent
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...star of the show is John Singer Sargent's notorious Madame X (1884), herself an American transplant who moved to Paris as a child, and who, like her expat painter, would always be an outsider in her adopted city. metmuseum.org
...exhibit ranges from portraits to cityscapes to glimpses into the studio life. Cassatt's severe and pensive mother makes a showing in drab black dress, a prim contrast to Thomas Hovenden's slumped self-portrait (1875). But the star of the show is John Singer Sargent's notorious Madame X (1884), herself an American transplant who moved to Paris as a child, and who, like her expat painter, would always be an outsider in her adopted city.
MARCIA J. SARGENT Laguna Beach, Calif...
...exhibit also includes watercolors composed by other early masters of the medium: John Singer Sargent and John La Farge. Freshmen will recognize the bold colors and strong forms in La Farge’s “Chinese Pi-tong” (1879) as they are also apparent in his stained glass “Battle Window” which can be found in Annenberg...
...rediscovering and searching for their roots in the early watercolorists,” said Stebbins. Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Demuth and John Marin—all early experimenters with realism, abstraction and modernism—took on the yoke previously worn by Sargent and Homer...