American expatriate artist John Singer Sargent is best known for his glamorous society portraits. Now, for the first time in Britain, Sargent and the Sea will present more than 80 paintings, drawings and watercolours that reveal a less familiar side of the artist: the seascapes and coastal scenes subjects produced in his early career during summer journeys from Paris to Brittany, Normandy and Capri, as well as two transatlantic voyages.
Exhibition organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. in cooperation with the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art, Christie's, The Mr & Mrs. Raymond J Horowitz Foundation for the Arts, Inc, the National Endowment for the Arts, as part of 'American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius', and The Joseph F McCrindle Foundation.