In 1897, Edward Rathbone Bacon, a powerful railway magnate, challenged the globetrotting Swedish artist Anders Zorn to best the portrait of his sister-in-law Virginia Purdy that John Singer Sargent ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The prodigiously gifted Anders Zorn (1860-1920) squandered a portion of his talent, but what he left behind shimmers ...

The sumptuous colors, dazzling brushwork and sheer drama in the paintings of Anders Zorn (1860-1920) earned the Swedish artist fortune and fame during the Gilded Age. But Zorn’s work and name ...

He painted American presidents, barons of industry and society grande dames. He was as adept at etching as he was at sculpting in bronze. A fashion plate and a married womanizer, he traveled the world ...

In this exhibition, artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and Édouard Vuillard tempt the audience to step into the Parisian cafés in the decades around 1900.

The Swedish artist Anders Zorn steps out of the shadows of history for “Anders Zorn: A European Seduces America,” coming to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum at the end of February. “Too young to be ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. It was the truth. Nowhere was Anders’s hometown. But just as every family is very old if you look closely enough ...

His brother-in-law called him “a hybrid between a peasant and a gentleman.” In both his life and his art, the fin-de-siècle Swedish painter Anders Zorn straddled worlds unknown to each other. A ...

Artists from Turner to Monet have been praised for their paintings of water, but a new exhibit at the Legion of Honor shows that a gilded-age Swedish master may have trumped them all. On view through ...

"Published ... on the occasion of the exhibition Anders Zorn: Sweden's master painter on view at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, November 9, 2013-February 2, 2014 ...