Sargent and the Sea

Exhibition overview

Sargent and the Sea
September 12, 2009 – January 3, 2010
In Sargent and the Sea, the Corcoran Gallery of Art brings together for the first time more than 80 paintings, watercolors, and drawings depicting seascapes and coastal scenes from the early career of John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), the pre-eminent American expatriate painter of the late 19th century.
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Exhibition Credit

Sargent and the Sea is organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and made possible by the generous support of the Terra Foundation for American Art, Christie's, The Mr. & Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts, Inc., and Altria Group, Inc. Additional support for the exhibition is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius and and The Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation.