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John Singer Sargent Masterworks: Sargent and Diamond Mountains

February 27, 2018

In this cross-cultural program, curators Stephanie L. Herdrich and Soyoung Lee look to John Singer Sargent's renditions of Italy and to the glittering Diamond Mountains of the Korean peninsula to explore ways our environment creates a longing that registers in our art.

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John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)

October 1, 2004

By H. Barbara Weinberg

In May 1876, accompanied by his mother and his sister Emily, Sargent began his first trip to the United States, which would include visits to the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia and Niagara Falls.

Upcoming Exhibition

Sargent and Paris

April 27–August 3, 2025

Sargent and Paris explores the early career of American painter John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), from his arrival in Paris in 1874 as a precocious 18-year-old art student through the mid-1880s, when his infamous portrait Madame X was a scandalous s…

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Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends

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All American: Summer of Sargent and Bingham

August 17, 2015

By Nora Gorman

Nora Gorman, College Group at the Met Committee Member, recounts the College Group at the Met's event All American: Summer of Sargent and Bingham.

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Now on View: Lithographs by John Singer Sargent

November 19, 2015

By Constance C. McPhee

Curator Constance C. McPhee explores a collection of lithographs John Singer Sargent produced in 1895.

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Sargent and Paris

A look at John Singer Sargent’s formative years in Paris, a city that helped spark his rise to the nineteenth-century art world.

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Sargent for a Week

September 22, 2015

By Aminata

Guest Blogger Aminata recounts her first time participating in a Teen Summer Studio.

Press Release

The Metropolitan Museum of Art to Present Major Exhibition of Works by John Singer Sargent from His Transformative Decade in Paris

Coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the artist’s death, Sargent and Paris will include approximately 100 works of art, from preparatory sketches to daring masterpieces, culminating in the iconic Madame X

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John Singer Sargent and World War I: Public Art and Personal Loss

December 6, 2017

By Stephanie L. Herdrich

Assistant Curator Stephanie L. Herdrich explores John Singer Sargent's work during World War I and the ways he sought to convey the magnitude and loss of the devastating conflict.