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1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 33 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Elizabeth Wiley. |
| Summary |
With unprecedented access to newly discovered sources, Donna M. Lucey illuminates the lives of four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny clairvoyance, Sargent's portraits hint at the mysteries, passions, and tragedies that unfolded in his subjects' lives. Sequestered in a fantasy-land castle in the remote Rocky Mountains, Elsie Palmer carried on a labyrinthine love life; Elizabeth Chanler stepped into a maze of infidelity with her best friend's husband; as the veiled image of Sally Fairchild? Beautiful, commanding, and poison-tongued? Emerged on Sargent's canvas, the power of his artistry lured her sister Lucia into an ill-fated life in art; shrewd, iron-willed Isabella Stewart Gardner collected both art and young men. Born to unimaginable wealth, these women lived on an operatic scale, and their letters and diaries create a rich depiction of the Gilded Age and the acclaimed but secretive painter whose canvases defined the era. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Myers, Elsie Palmer, 1872-1955.
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Fuller, Lucia Fairchild, 1872-1924.
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Chapman, Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler, 1866-1937.
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Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924.
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Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925 -- Friends and associates.
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Women -- United States -- Biography.
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Upper class women -- United States -- Biography.
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United States -- Biography.
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United States -- History -- 1865-1921.
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Wiley, Elizabeth, 1962 April 21-, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781681687292 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1681687291 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11969300 |
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