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Tag Archives: John Singer Sargent
out of the nest: innocence abroad
Henry James took to Europe his delicate sensibilities, and later Hemingway took his lusty appetites; today the idea of innocence abroad lingers but tenuously, as the rejection of home… The American emigre movement to Europe had its beginnings in the … Continue reading
steven a. cohen: touch of grey
At what point does the grey zone enter into the shadow lands on further into the black areas of the infinite? Is an hunting of the hedge fund manager also an indictment of the entire financial market and all it … Continue reading
edwardian divide
Some disquieting similarities between the Edwardian Age, the flowering of capitalism in the era of Thorstein Veblen, running into the tide of modernism and consumer culture ; and today’s dawn of post modernism on the cusp of the service economy … Continue reading
cosmos as giant thought
For over a hundred years, physicists have systematically shattered the mechanistic universe, and by doing so have made room among the black holes for ESP, mindons, psitrons, and ghosts among others… The general public remains comparatively apathetic to psi research, … Continue reading
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Tagged art blog, Dr. J.B. Rhine, Dr. Louisa Rhine, Edgar Cayce, ESP, John Singer Sargent, julie newmar, Kirlian photography, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, margaret mead, Mrs. Lucille Kahn, Parapsychology, Richard S. Broughton, Tina Louise, William A. Tiller
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its always money in philadelphia
Philadelphia. It’s always had a peculiar character about it; an aristocracy of old families, Quaker in conscience if not in religion or taste… “Philadelphia,” wrote George Biddle in his autobiography, ” has its own breed of integrity. It believes in … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andrew Wyeth, Benjamin West, Charles Willson Peale, Eakins, George Biddle, John Singer Sargent, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mary Cassat, mary cassatt, Raphael Soyer, Thomas Eakins, William Penn, Winslow Homer
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platonic painter and patron
Isabella Stewart Gardner. A dashing individualist, with the showmanship of Ziegfeld and the temper of Toscanini, she took Boston by storm. A passion for old master art, young men and music all seemed to come together in one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Bernard Berenson, Charles Eliot Norton, Countess Eleanor Palffy, Fenway Court Gardner Museum, Gardner Museum Boston, Gardner Museum Gothic Room, Henry Adams, Henry E. Huntington, Henry James, isabella stewart gardner, James J. Rorimer, John Singer Sargent, Longfellow Paul Revere's Ride, Madame Gautreau madame X, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, raphael paintings
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sweep out the ashes
Eccentric she was.A black sheep never quite accepted by Boston’s first families. Quirky. An only in America original. She had edge, she had flash; a dashing individualist Isabella Stewart Gardner “Mrs. Jack” startled Boston society by erecting a Venetian pleasure … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernard Berenson, Cleveland Amory, Countess Eleanor Palffy, Fenway Court Gardner Museum, isabella stewart gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, John Singer Sargent, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Morris Carter biographer, Nellie Melba
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Money is the sixth sense
Isabella Stewart Gardner was certainly no prude. She liked to tell risque jokes in public, and she did her best to shake up, startle, and rattle staid old Boston society. Her pleasure dome in the Back Bay filled with masterpieces … Continue reading
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Tagged Anders Zorn, Bernard Berenson, Charles Eliot Norton, Countess Eleanor Palffy, Edith Wharton, Fenway Court Gardner Museum, Gentile Bellini, Henry James, isabella stewart gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, John L. Sullivan, John Singer Sargent, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Morris Carter
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Gardner: drawn as if by lightning
A dashing individualist, “Mrs. Jack” Gardner startled Boston society by erecting a Venetian pleasure dome in Back Bay and filling it with masterpieces for the public to enjoy… In buying old masters, Mrs. Gardner was a generation ahead of tycoons … Continue reading
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Tagged Anders Zorn, Andrew Mellon art collection, Bernard Berenson, Carlo Crivelli, Fenway Court Boston, Gardner Museum Boston, Gardner Museum heist, Gardner Museum Heist 1990, Henry Clay Frick art collection, isabella stewart gardner, Isabelle Stewart Gardner, isabelle stewart gardner museum, James McNeill Whistler, James Whitey Bulger, John Singer Sargent, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Perseus-Andromeda legend, Saint George Medieval Knight
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