Curated OER
Powerful Portraits
Students research and study the career and work of famous American portraitist John Singer Sargent. They collect images of people wearing clothing suitable for their career or hobby and identify postures and gestures connected to them....
PBS
Pbs: Sister Wendy's American Collection: The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
Webpage describing the painting The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit by John Singer Sargent from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Image of art provided as well as an option of a larger version or a detailed viewer that can be navigated....
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Jss Virtual Gallery: John Sargent's Madame X
Informational website with a large image of John Sargent's painting "Madame X." Includes general information about the painting and information on its subject, Madame X or Madame Gautreau. Provides details about the story behind the...
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Jss Virt. Gallery: John Sargent Daughters of Edward Boit
This site from the John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery displays Sargent's painting, "Daughters Sargent's Edward Darley Boit." Informative site on the painting with good, in-depth information.
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Jss Virtual Gallery: John Singer Sargent Thumbnails
This site from the John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery is a great sight with thumbnails of John Sargent's artworks including the "Madame Gautreau" and "Madame X" portraits. Provides links to websites with more information on the pictures...
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Jss Virtual Gallery: John Singer Sargent's Lady Agnew
This website from the John Singer Sargent Virutal Gallery is a very nice website with detailed information on John Sargent's painting, "Lady Agnew." Good quotes, analysis of the painting in comparison to other Sargent paintings, and very...
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Jss Virtual Gallery: John Sargent Thumbnails 1896 Thru 1897
This site from the JSS Virtual Gallery is a nice website showing the artwork of John Singer Sargent from 1896 to 1897. Includes images of "Gabriel Faure," "Mrs. Carl Meyer and her Children," "Mrs. George Swinton," and "Catherine Vlasto."...
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John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery
This site known as the JSS virtual gallery is a great site with a biography of the artist John Singer Sargent and an extensive listing of his works. Links 350+ paintings.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: The Gilded Age
The Smithsonian presents a collection of sixty pieces of art from the Gilded Age period in America. Works are included by such artists as Sargent, Thayer, Bannister, Beaux, and others.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singer Sargent (1856 1925)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art provides this informative page on the American artist John Singer Sargent. With information and pictures this in a nice resource for study.
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Clark Art Institute: Like Breath on Glass
View an exciting exhibit of paintings using the "painting softly" approach by such well known twentieth century artists such as James Whistler, George Inness, William Chase, and others.
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Boston Public Library: The Sargent Murals
A fully illustrated examination of John Singer Sargent?s monumental mural cycle, "Triumph of Religion," with information on the history of the murals, their interpretation, and the steps the library is taking to conserve the work.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts: John Singer Sargent
The Museum of Fine Arts Online Collections Database contains a wealth of paintings by John Singer Sargent. Click on each individual painting to view a larger image and more information about the painting.
Other
Royal Academy of Arts: Sargent and the Sea [Pdf]
Gallery guide provides an overview of Sargent's artistic career, with a focus on his paintings of the sea and related subjects.
Emory University
Emory University: Sargent's Painting "Gassed"
Emory University provides a description and image of Sargent's painting "Gassed." Provides an artistic depiction of World War I.
New York University
Grey Art Gallery: John Singer Sargent, Draughtsman
Resource presents this look at the drawings and sketchwork of American painter John Singer Sargent.
CGFA
Carol Gerten Fine Arts: John Singer Sargent
This entry presents a biography of John Singer Sargent, with links to images of 15 of his painted works.
Tate
Tate: John Singer Sargent
This resource provides a biography on painter John Singer Sargent, along with images of 44 of his paintings.
Tate
Tate: Artist's Study of the "Portrait of Mme Gautreau"
A reproduction of a study made by John Singer Sargent in preparation for painting his famous "Portrait of Mme Gautreau." The "Portrait of Mme Gautreau," or, as it is more commonly called, "Madame X," closely parallels the finished portrait.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: American Art: Sargent: Portrait of Pauline Astor (1898 99)
John Singer Sargent painted this full-size portrait of Pauline Astor, which has been compared to Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy and to the work of Sir Anthony Van Dyck. The similarities to The Blue Boy are explained in this article.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Sargent, the Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
View a picture and read a description of John Singer Sargent's painting "The Daughters of Edward Boit". This was a commissioned life-sized portrait of a wealthy Bostonian's four daughters.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Sargent, Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau)
John Singer Sargent considered his painting Madame X "the best thing I have done.". View pictures of this painting and read a description in this essay.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Sargent, El Jaleo
View pictures and read a description of John Singer Sargent's painting El Jaleo.