The Sargent Atelier
The Living Surface
A newly commissioned exhibition exploring the qualities that make Sargent's painting feel immediate: the decisive edge, the single loaded stroke, the orchestration of black and white, and the moment when likeness becomes character. All fourteen works are original GenMoMA Atelier creations, not historical Sargent paintings or replicas.
Floor plan
Explore by room
4 rooms
Grand Manner Portraits
Five newly made portraits examine the Sargent vocabulary of public bearing and private character: luminous fabric, strategic darkness, decisive edges, and faces that hold the room.
5 works
Light & Leisure
Boats, gardens, and city interiors shift attention from the formal sitter to figures absorbed in weather, conversation, and changing light.
4 works
Private Lives
Informal portraits exchange public ceremony for concentration: a writer in conversation, a dancer after rehearsal, and a botanist examining a flower.
3 works
Watercolour Journeys
Three invented travel studies move from Venice to Tangier and the Dolomites, using reserved paper and rapid washes to make sunlight structural.
2 works
Collection overview

Grand Manner Portraits
Elena Voss in the White Drawing Room
GenMoMA Atelier · 2026

Grand Manner Portraits
Mara Bell at the Grand Stair
GenMoMA Atelier · 2026

Grand Manner Portraits
Elias Vale Between Rehearsals
GenMoMA Atelier · 2026

Grand Manner Portraits
Anika Rao with the Amber Fan
GenMoMA Atelier · 2026

Light & Leisure
Lanterns at Blue Hour
GenMoMA Atelier · 2026

Light & Leisure
Venetian Noon
GenMoMA Atelier · 2026

Grand Manner Portraits
Beatrice Hale at the Opera
GenMoMA Atelier · 2026

Light & Leisure
Morning Sail, Two Brothers
GenMoMA Atelier · 2026

Private Lives
Thomas Keane on the Terrace
GenMoMA Atelier · 2026

Private Lives
Lucía Ferrer After Rehearsal
GenMoMA Atelier · 2026

Watercolour Journeys
Courtyard, Tangier
GenMoMA Atelier · 2026

Watercolour Journeys
The Dolomites After Rain
GenMoMA Atelier · 2026

Private Lives
Dr. Miriam Cole in the Glasshouse
GenMoMA Atelier · 2026

Light & Leisure
Paris Café After Rain
GenMoMA Atelier · 2026