All posts tagged "John Singer Sargent"
-
10.9KbostonLincoln’s Bixby Letter, The Inspiration for Saving Private Ryan
In the 1998 film Saving Private Ryan, Gen. George Marshall reads a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to a Boston widow who...
-
7.1K1Arts and LeisureThe Many Loves of Margarett Sargent McKean, Mad Brahmin Artist
For half her life, Margarett Sargent struggled against the strictures and demands of her Boston Brahmin upbringing. Then for the other half,...
-
11.1KArts and LeisureThe Death of Chow in Boston Harbor, 1798
Among the graves of British and American Revolutionary War soldiers on Boston Common lies the body of a 19-year old Chinese teenager...
-
10.4K2Arts and LeisureIsabella Stewart Gardner, Early Gay Icon?
Isabella Stewart Gardner is known to most for Fenway Court, her palatial Boston museum from which $500 million in art was stolen...
-
9.9K5Arts and LeisureJohn Singer Sargent Paints the Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
John Singer Sargent may have tried to say something about a friend’s family when he created the painting The Daughters of Edward...
To Top
