Friends Program: Paul Fisher, PhD, The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World

A great American artist, John Singer Sargent is also an abiding enigma. While dressing like a businessman and crafting a highly respectable persona, he scandalized viewers on both sides of the Atlantic with the frankness and sensuality of his work. In The Grand Affair and in this talk, Wellesley College historian Paul Fisher explores the enigmas of fin de siècle sexuality and art, fashioning a biography that grants the man and his paintings new and intense life. 

Registration is required, as we have a current capacity limit of 100.