Book Fair@The DIA with author Jean Strouse – Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers

**Jean Strouse** captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies
surrounding John Singer Sargent’s portraits of the Wertheimer family looking
at****twelve portraits of one English family painted by the expatriate
American artist at the height of his career—and at the intersections of all
these lives with the sparkle and strife of the Edwardian age.
**In conversation with Benjamin Colman, Curator of American Art, Detroit
Institute of Arts. Following the presentation, please join a DIA docent-led
tour of works by John Singer Sargent and other associated artists**.
**About the Author:** Jean Strouse is the author of _Morgan, American
Financier_ and _Alice James, A Biography,_ which won the Bancroft Prize in
American History and Diplomacy. Her essays and reviews have appeared in _The
New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Newsweek,
Architectural Digest,_ and _Slate._ She has been President of the Society of
American Historians, a consultant (oral historian) to the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation, and a Fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American
Philosophical Society, and the Executive Council of the Authors Guild, she was
the Sue Ann and John Weinberg Director of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman
Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library from 2003 to
2017.

**Purchase the
Book:**(https://bookshop.org/a/7125/9780374615673)

Organized by: The J, The Detroit Jewish Book Fair

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