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End notes: John Singer Sargent’s portraits at the MET
“Scintillating…addictive” applauded The Guardian; “outstanding…one of the best I’ve ever seen,” acclaimed The Telegraph; “mesmerising” said The Spectator. All were describing the exhibition Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends at London’s National Portrait Gallery earlier this year. But for anyone in New York this summer, it gets even better. An expanded version of the show of John Singer Sargent’s portraits …
Talking past and present
The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, may be this country’s oldest continuing museum…or it may not be. Given its other distinctions, that hardly matters. Founded in 1799 by the wealthy entrepreneurs of Salem whose merchant ships sailed to India, Japan, Africa, China, the Pacific Islands, and beyond, it began with the curious idea of presenting the citizens of Salem …
The Peabody Essex Museum’s collection of Chinese export ceramics
from The Magazine ANTIQUES, September/October 2012 | The objects shown are selected from the nearly three hundred examples featured in William R. Sargent’s monumental Treasures of Chinese Export Ceramics from the Peabody Essex Museum, published earlier this year. CHARGER, Jingdezhen,1600-1620. Porcelain; diameter 17 ½ inches. Museum purchase. The shield bearing a seven-headed hydra bifurcated by a banderole with the Latin motto Saptenti …
A Nation of Artists
A landmark semiquincentennial collaboration unites two Philadelphia museums and a storied private collection to explore American art, identity, tradition, and change. ⬬
Masterworks at the Fenimore Art Museum
Over just eight months, the Fenimore Art Museum, with the support of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust, expanded its fine art collection with the acquisition of twenty-seven new paintings by American nonpareils. Thomas Eakins. Childe Hassam. John Singer Sargent. James McNeill Whistler. These are just some of the artists whose work is now included in the …
A String of Pearls in a Shoebox
In a radiantly decorated and appointed turn-of-the-century tea house on a Long Island estate, the vision of American artist and Elsie de Wolfe protégé Everett Shinn stands revealed.
Field Notes: Redefining Americana
If it were in any other city, the Brooklyn Museum would be a world-class destination—and for the savvy museumgoer it already is.
Current and coming: Eastman Johnson in Waterville
A bicentennial-birthday exhibition at the Colby College Museum of Art.
Masterpieces on the Mersey
Thanks to the discernment of a viscount, Lever Art Gallery preserves one of the most comprehensive collections of fine and decorative arts in the UK.