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Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas
Donna M. Lucey
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Description for Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas
Hardcover. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HB. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 666.
With unprecedented access to newly discovered sources, Donna M. Lucey illuminates the lives of four women painted by the society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny clairvoyance, Sargent's portraits hint at the mysteries, passions and tragedies that unfolded in his subjects' lives. Elsie Palmer carried on a labyrinthine love life in a Rocky Mountain castle; Elizabeth Chanler stepped into a maze of infidelity with her best friend's husband; as the veiled image of Sally Fairchild emerged on the canvas, her sister was lured into an ill-fated life in art; and shrewd Isabella Stewart Gardner collected both art and young men. ... Read more
With unprecedented access to newly discovered sources, Donna M. Lucey illuminates the lives of four women painted by the society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny clairvoyance, Sargent's portraits hint at the mysteries, passions and tragedies that unfolded in his subjects' lives. Elsie Palmer carried on a labyrinthine love life in a Rocky Mountain castle; Elizabeth Chanler stepped into a maze of infidelity with her best friend's husband; as the veiled image of Sally Fairchild emerged on the canvas, her sister was lured into an ill-fated life in art; and shrewd Isabella Stewart Gardner collected both art and young men. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393079036
SKU
V9780393079036
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Ref
99-21
About Donna M. Lucey
Donna M. Lucey, author of the best-selling Archie and Amelie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age and other books, recipient of two NEH grants, and a 2017 writer-in-residence at Edith Wharton's the Mount, is media editor at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
Reviews for Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas
Filled with vivid scenes worthy of a novel by Henry James, yet grounded in comprehensive research, Donna Lucey's Sargent's Women is a delicious elucidation of character, class, and culture-a welcome addition to that slim but select shelf of volumes devoted to bringing John Singer Sargent and his subjects back to life.
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