Portrait de Jacques-Émile Blanche

last decade of life

Watercolours of Maine, Florida and the American West

In the last decade of his life Sargent produces many watercolours in Maine, Florida and the American West, of fauna, flora and native peoples.

1922

Co-founder of the Grand Central Art Galleries

In 1922 Sargent co-founds New York City's Grand Central Art Galleries together with Edmund Greacen, Walter Leighton Clark and others; he actively participates in the galleries and their academy, the Grand Central School of Art, until his death.

1924

A major retrospective at the Grand Central Art Galleries

In 1924 the Grand Central Art Galleries hold a major retrospective exhibit of Sargent's work; he then returns to England.