Introduces the history and types of watercolor paintings, and presents many works by American watercolor artists.

A comprehensive history of watercolor in the United States.

Introduces the history and types of watercolor paintings, and presents many works by American watercolor artists.

A comprehensive history of watercolor in the United States.

This volume provides the first glimpse of modernist experimentation in watercolor, and the appropriation of the watercolor medium as an American form of expression. Its fifty-five color and four black and white illustrations include reproductions of works by Georgia O'Keefe, Edward Hopper, and John Marin.

"The Museum's collection illuminates all aspects of Sargent's 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 University's Widener Library."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved