American watercolor in the age of Homer and Sargent /
The fascinating story of the transformation of American watercolor practice between 1866 and 1925 The formation of the American Watercolor Society in 1866 by a small, dedicated group of painters transformed the perception of what had long been considered a marginal medium. Artists of all ages, style...
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : New Haven, Connecticut :
Philadelphia Museum of Art ; Yale University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Internet Archive Lending Library
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Table of Contents:
- The American watercolor movement
- American watercolor before 1866: separate worlds
- Ruskin, Turner, and the English tradition, 1855-1865
- The formation of the American watercolor society
- "Strenuous and persistent efforts": the watercolor movement, 1873-1877
- Landscape in the 1870s
- The illustrators: from "black and white" to color, 1873-1882
- Figure painting in the 1870s: Homer and Eakins
- Art for a Decorative Age
- Impressionism from Munich and Rome
- High-water mark: figure painters in the 1880s
- Landscape painting after 1880: tonalism
- Illustration and decoration in the Gilded Age
- Impressionism and post-impressionism: Prendergast, Homer, and Sargent
- The "American medium" and the moderns
- Flash in the pan: a history of manufacturing watercolor paint in America / Rebecca Pollak.