{"product_id":"john-singer-sargent-9780789207487","title":"John Singer Sargent","description":"\u003cp\u003eSargents enduring popularity has prompted a thoughtful reappraisal by prominent art critic Carter Ratcliff  who shows us the surprising breadth of the artists work. Never before has a book so thoroughly represented that variety: 110 lavish color plates and more than 200 halftones convey the brilliance of his portraits  the exuberance of his watercolors  the stately pomp of his murals. It is perhaps the watercolors that are most exciting to contemporary eyes  bold  spontaneous  and vividly hued  they have a breathtaking immediacy.  Born in Florence in 1856 to American parents  Sargent spent a nomadic childhood before going to Paris to study painting. He learned quickly and by the 1880s had begun the steady climb to fame that ultimately placed him at the center of his world  with a circle of friends and rivals that included Henry James  Claude Monet  and James McNeill Whistler. When Sargent died in 1925  a childhood companion wrote in her memorial that \"the summing up of a would-be biographer must  I think be: He painted.\" It is the strikingly beautiful results of that lifelong devotion to his art that glow throughout the pages of this incomparable book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45280456540213,"sku":"ByrdShop_0789207486","price":109.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780789207487.jpg?v=1780637108","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/john-singer-sargent-9780789207487","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}