He exhibits thirteen paintings, including Madame X (1884), at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco.

May 7, the British ship liner, Lusitania is torpedoed off the Irish coast by a German submarine.  Of the 1,195 lives lost, 128  were U.S. citizens. Even though the Germans had warned Americans not to take passage on British ships, the incident would contribute to America entering the war two years later.

John designs stationery for the Red Cross and sells works from his studio for charity.

July: Henry James becomes a British subject -- partly out of disgust over the United States not entering the war, partly out of convenience, since all aliens in Britain must register and report regularly, and partly out of love for his adopted home. 

Sargent doesn't.

He exhibits at the inaugural exhibition of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, buys ten of Sargent's watercolors. 
 

Ceiling and right and left of south lunette

1) The Doctrine of Incarnation -- god coming down as man. Madonna and Handmaid of the Lord 

West Wall

2) Heaven

3) The Judgment

4) Hell

5) Downfall of paganism, preached by Hebrew prophets
 
 
 

6) Hebrew ideal -- the chosen people protected by Jehovah, through its observance of the Law.

 

7) The Messianic era, foretold by Hebrew prophets

He agrees and sets up a studio at 22 Columbus Avenue, Boston.

In June he visits the sculptor Cyrus E. Dallin in Arlington Mass. who had also done work for the MFA.

In London, without him, an exhibition of 46 of his "mugs" are put on with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, hosted at the Grafton Galleries. 



In the summer he travels to the Rocky Mountains of Montana and British Columbia.

On August 20, 1916, Sargent writes to Isabella Stewart Gardner from the Canadian Rockies -- 

"I am camping under the waterfall . . . . It is magnificent when the sun shines which it did the first two days. I began a picture–that is ten days ago–and since then it has been raining and snowing steadily– provisions and temper getting low–but I shall stick it out 'til the sun reappears . . . . Your handkerchiefs are in constant use and still hold out in spite of a dripping nose and cold feet." 

And on August 31st, "I have done a picture of a fantastic waterfall (YoYo Falls) . . . and I am off camping to another place near here where I expect to find other awful sights. . . ." 

One of those sights was Lake O'Hara.
See footnote 2

He is awarded the L.L.D. by Yale University and a Doctor of Arts by Harvard University.

In November he returns to London.