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Saturday, April 08, 2006
American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875–1950, at the Fogg Art Museum
Fogg Art Museum: April 8 through June 25, 2006
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), Group in the Simplon, 1911. Watercolor over graphite on white wove paper, 36 x 50.9 cm. Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Gift of Sir Joseph Duveen, 1927.7. Photo: Allan Macintyre, HUAM, © President and Fellows of Harvard College.
This exhibition presents a survey of over 50 works drawn predominantly from the Fogg's extraordinary collection of American art. The period 1875-1950 was a golden age in American watercolor, when masters from Sargent, La Farge, and Homer to Hopper, Demuth, and Rothko explored its representational and expressive possibilities. ...