the boats it carried, the people who worked it. Those early pictures are the subject of a pioneering show called "Sargent and the Sea," which just launched at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys the first 10 years of a precocious painter getting his start in Paris.

After two years of traveling, “Madame X” — the iconic 1884 portrait by John Singer Sargent — has returned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it’s the star of a new exhibit ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - U.S. artist John Singer Sargent was best known for his society portraits of subjects ranging from European beauties to U.S. presidents, which earned him comparisons to ...

“This show is a lot of fun, and I think people will enjoy getting behind the scenes a little bit with Sargent,” says Erica Hirshler, senior curator of American paintings at the museum.

Wander the painting galleries of a major museum on either side of the Atlantic and chances are you’ll encounter John Singer Sargent. The reasons are as much geographic as artistic. Born in ...