Sargent did not only apply his talents as a portraitist to women, as shown by this likeness of Edwin Booth (1833-1893), which the Amon Carter Museum in Forth Worth, specialized in American art, acquired recently. Booth was a famous American (...)
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art recently announced the acquisition of a work by Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821-1872), presented as the first Afro-American artist to have gained international stature. Entitled The Caves and painted in 1869, (...)
Strangely, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art which, as the name says, holds an extensive collection of 19th and 20th century American paintings, did not own a single work by Mary Cassatt before now. This is no longer the case. Last 21 (...)