19001910 Charcoal Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Singer Sargent (18561925)Robert Henry Benson 1912 Charcoal Courtesy Mr. Robin Benson.Photography by Christopher Calnan, John Singer Sargent (18561925) Mary Smyth Hunter ca. A triumphant show combines the two best collections of John Singer Sargent's dazzling watercolors. An expatriate who left Boston for Brittany, Gay began his career with genre scenes from eighteenth-century life, shifting in 1884 to the kind of realistic peasant picture seen in Novembre taples [SAAM, 1977.111]. In addition to works by Sargent and Whistler, the exhibition features paintings and prints by Frank Duveneck, Thomas Moran, William Merritt Chase, Maurice Prendergast, Maxfield Parrish, Louise Cox, and Ellen Day Hale. In the last couple of years, the Rollins Museum of Arts American collection has experienced transformative growth. Visitors can, among other things, hear musical performances from the Chinese composer Huang Ruo, theKoreanAmericanK-pop artist Eric Nam or the Syrian American rapper Omar Offendum; view the 1920s Japanese silent film A Page of Madness; or see site-specific sculptures created by the artist Sagar Kamath. He first came as a young artist, then as an established and sought-after painter, worldly and cosmopolitan. Written in Stone Historic Inscriptions from the Ancient Near East, ca. Americas history of nuclear testing in the region is referenced by a large-scale lei piece by Niki Hastings-McFall, who is from New Zealand and of Samoan and Pakeha descent. The exhibition will present an array of Sargent's dazzling oils, watercolors, drawings, and never-before-exhibited photographs from his personal collection, which explore Spain's rich culture (both historic and modern), its people, and its magnificent urban and rural landscapes. Sargent and Spain then dives into Spanish popular music and culture. His teacher and mentor Carolus-Duran told him: Go to Madrid to study Velzquez, Velzquez and Velzquez. That is the beginning of the story, said Sarah Cash, curator of the exhibition along with Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, on Tuesday. This years Met Gala and accompanying Costume Institute exhibition will celebrate the life and John Singer Sargent and even Winston Churchill and El Jaleo 34002000 B.C. These drawn portraits represent a substantial, yet often overlooked, part of his practice, and they demonstrate the same sense of immediacy, psychological sensitivity, and mastery of chiaroscuro that animate Sargents sitters on canvas. Nationalmuseum | John Singer Sargent 1880s-90s, blown and applied hot-worked glass, 20 1/2 x 8 1/8 in. Court artists captured palace life, parties and the mood evoked by its picturesque landscape in large-scale paintings, 33 of which will be on view in this exhibition, some for the first time publicly. 1856 - 1925, Framing Art: Sargent, Inness, Whistler, and More from the Arkell Museum Collection, Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano, In the Library: Photography and Travel in Sargents Spain, American Made: Painting and Sculpture from the DeMell Jacobsen Collection, In the Shadow of Monet: Giverny and American Impressionism, Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in France. On view will be selections from The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1973-86), Nan Goldins personal chronicles of friendship, love and loss. May 1 to May 14; National Museum of Asian Art, asia.si.edu, Frank Stewarts Nexus: An American Photographers Journey, 1960s to the Present, At 14, Frank Stewart borrowed a camera from his mother and shot the 1963 March on Washington.