Old school…
For the next series I was looking to complicate my life a bit more… so who better to visit for that added complication than famed portrait artist John Singer Sargent?
I first met Sargent not in art class, not in art history class, but in my 8th grade American history class. My class was doing a unit on the beginning of the 20th century and the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. There were numerous photographs of Roosevelt in the textbook, but the one image that stuck out for me and my 13 going on 14 year-old brain was the painting of Roosevelt… the “official White House portrait”. There was some super small text in the corner: JOHN SINGER SARGENT.
It’s not often that you see a barely teenager in the school library looking up John Singer Sargent…
