American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singer Sargent

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The Museums collection illuminates all aspects of Sargents career. The drawings and watercolors in particular reflect his activity outside the portrait studio: his sojourns in Spain Morocco and elsewhere in North Africa and in the Middle East; his enduring fascination with Venice; his holidays in the Italian lake district and the Alps; his tours of North America including Florida and the Rocky Mountains; his visit as an official war artist to the western front in 1918; and his work as a muralist at the Boston Public Library the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Harvard Universitys Widener Library.