In the ranks of the 19th-century Paris avant-garde, Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) was at once an anomaly and a sensation-an American lady from a family of Philadelphia bankers who was invited by no less an artistic eminence than Edgar Degas to show her work with the Impressionists in their groundbreaking exhibitions in the years 1879-86. She Read More
There’s a coup d’etat brewing at the Harvard Club. The membership
is squabbling over a modern, glass-sheathed addition to the club’s stately home
on West 44th Street, near Fifth Avenue. Critics feel the addition, currently
under construction, will wreck the aesthetic of the red- brick, 1894
neo-Georgian edifice. Some members gripe that the Harvard Club Read More
It is one of the curiosities of art history that John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was once thought to be an Impressionist. He was characterized as such by Henry James in an essay published in Harper’s Magazine in 1887, and it was not meant to be a compliment. (James later modified his judgment of Impressionism, but Read More
There are artists about whom critical opinion seems destined to remain forever divided. The American expatriate painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), whose work is currently the subject of an exhibition at the Adelson Galleries, is certainly one of the classic examples. Few American painters of his generation enjoyed as much in the way of celebrity Read More
