‘Fashioned by Sargent’ Review: Tailored to Modern Tastes
Nearly 40 years ago, the Whitney Museum presented John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) as a kind of cultural Zelig, an artist whose identity was keyed to the zeitgeist. The museum focuses on post-World War II and contemporary American art yet surprised everyone by mounting a Sargent retrospective. The…
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