Jean Strouse, "Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers" (FSG, 2024)
At the height of his career, Sargent painted twelve portraits of the Wertheimer family, commissioned by Asher Wertheimer, a German-Jewish London art dealer who became his greatest private patron and close friend. Their portraits, later gifted to the National Gallery, stirred both admiration and con…
Jean Strouse, "Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers" (FSG, 2024)
At the height of his career, Sargent painted twelve portraits of the Wertheimer family, commissioned by Asher Wertheimer, a German-Jewish London art dealer who became his greatest private patron and close friend. Their portraits, later gifted to the National Gallery, stirred both admiration and con…
Jean Strouse, "Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers" (FSG, 2024)
At the height of his career, Sargent painted twelve portraits of the Wertheimer family, commissioned by Asher Wertheimer, a German-Jewish London art dealer who became his greatest private patron and close friend. Their portraits, later gifted to the National Gallery, stirred both admiration and con…
Were the Wertheimer Portraits John Singer Sargent's Greatest Works? | Jean Strouse
Author Jean Strouse tells Jim about the extraordinary relationship between a wealthy British art dealer Asher Wertheimer, his large family, and John Singer Sargent, the iconic portraitist of the 19th and 20th centuries. Her book is entitled Family Romance, and with great skill Jean paints a Sargent…
Who is J.P. Morgan?
This week, on the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, which was 113 years ago today, we’re shining a light on one of its biggest investors; a man who is as controversial as he was transformative to the future of America. The railroad, the steel industry, the treasury - all impacted greatly b…
23 A Creative Force
Welcome back to The Spark as you know it, featuring a reading recommendation, updates on my moseying, and an author interview.
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America's Second Gilded Age: Jean Strouse
In the third episode of Endgame with Fintan O'Toole, the historian Jean Strouse discusses the parallels between our current American moment and the Gilded Age. She and O’Toole talk about the roots of our modern American institutions in the Gilded Age, when the country's business leaders imported cu…
America's Second Gilded Age: Jean Strouse
In the third episode of Endgame with Fintan O'Toole, the historian Jean Strouse discusses the parallels between our current American moment and the Gilded Age. She and O’Toole talk about the roots of our modern American institutions in the Gilded Age, when the country's business leaders imported cu…
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