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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. Born to unimaginable wealth, these women lived on an operatic scale; their letters and diaries create a rich depiction of the Gilded Age and the painter whose canvases defined the era.
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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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.
Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life In Donna M. Lucey's deft hands four John Singer Sargent portraits become portals to the Gilded Age. By delving into the lives of the heiresses he painted she brings us into their scintillating world. We watch as they travel the globe, twirl through ballrooms, make good or not-so-good marriages, embark on affairs
and pursue new careers in a time of changing roles for women.
Laura J. Snyder, author of Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek and the Reinvention of Seeing With psychological savvy and a raconteur's wit, Donna Lucey brings four Gilded Age women to vivid life along with the master who painted them. Lucey morphs these women from privileged, enigmatic portrait subjects into the sympathetic heroines of their own full stories. I was enthralled.
Claire McMillan, author of The Necklace Sargent's Women has a distinct elegance, energy, and potency-Lucey's writing propels you forward, straight to the heart of the story, along the vibrant ties that linked this fascinating artist to the women he made infamous.
Christene Barberich, global editor-in-chief & co-founder, Refinery29 Donna Lucey upends our assumption that elite women of the Gilded Age were confined to a limited domestic sphere. The four women she profiles were rule-breakers and worldly sophisticates who powered through extreme challenges imposed by family, social norms, and illness. Each was painted by Sargent, but Lucey's narrative portraits upstage even his brilliant renderings, revealing four not-to-be-denied women of strength and determination.
Elizabeth Broun, former director, Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery
Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life In Donna M. Lucey's deft hands four John Singer Sargent portraits become portals to the Gilded Age. By delving into the lives of the heiresses he painted she brings us into their scintillating world. We watch as they travel the globe, twirl through ballrooms, make good or not-so-good marriages, embark on affairs
and pursue new careers in a time of changing roles for women.
Laura J. Snyder, author of Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek and the Reinvention of Seeing With psychological savvy and a raconteur's wit, Donna Lucey brings four Gilded Age women to vivid life along with the master who painted them. Lucey morphs these women from privileged, enigmatic portrait subjects into the sympathetic heroines of their own full stories. I was enthralled.
Claire McMillan, author of The Necklace Sargent's Women has a distinct elegance, energy, and potency-Lucey's writing propels you forward, straight to the heart of the story, along the vibrant ties that linked this fascinating artist to the women he made infamous.
Christene Barberich, global editor-in-chief & co-founder, Refinery29 Donna Lucey upends our assumption that elite women of the Gilded Age were confined to a limited domestic sphere. The four women she profiles were rule-breakers and worldly sophisticates who powered through extreme challenges imposed by family, social norms, and illness. Each was painted by Sargent, but Lucey's narrative portraits upstage even his brilliant renderings, revealing four not-to-be-denied women of strength and determination.
Elizabeth Broun, former director, Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery