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John Singer Sargent was somewhat of a rarity, having achieved recognition and success as an artist during his lifetime. He was controversial as an artist- known for realism in a period when experimental forms like impressionism and cubism were in vogue. He was an intriguing person, intensely private, and almost a man without country. But his prodigious body of work is, above all, a stunning record of the time in which he lived.
The 1929 “Cruiser Act” raised some controversy among those who believed that war had become obsolete, But the ships built under the act would be workhorses in the war to come.
Fans of The History Guy can check me out on tonight's (2/9) episode of History's Deadliest with Ving Rhames entitled "Islands" and Friday's (2/13) new episode of The UnXplained with William Shatner entitled "Mysteries of Ancient Africa."
