Andrew Stephenson - Locating Cosmopolitanism within a Trans-Atlantic Interpretive Frame

Locating Cosmopolitanism within a Trans-Atlantic Interpretive Frame: Critical Evaluation of Sargent’s Portraits and Figure Studies in Britain and the United States c.1886–1926

Tate Papers no. 27 (2015)

This article examines how John Singer Sargent’s American nationality, his Anglo-American expatriate experience and his works’ cosmopolitanism coloured the views of British and American art writers. Notwithstanding his great success as a painter, these writers remained conflicted about the nature of his cosmopolitan sensibility throughout his life and afterwards.

This article can be read online here. 

By Andrew Stephenson