Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Foster, Kathleen A.
Title:
American watercolor in the age of Homer and Sargent / Kathleen A. Foster.
Published / Created:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Philadelphia Museum of Art ; New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2017]

©2017
Physical Description:
496 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Related Content:
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Classification:
Books
Notes:
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 1-May 14, 2017.
Contents:
Foreword / Timothy Rub -- Introduction: 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 -- Appendix A: Members of the New York Water Color Society, 1850-1855 -- Appendix B: Members of the American Watercolor Society, 1866-1922 -- Appendix C: Chronology of the American watercolor movement.
Subject Terms:
Watercolor painting -- United States -- 19th century -- Exhibitions. | Watercolor painting -- United States -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. | Watercolor painting, American -- United States -- 19th century -- Exhibitions. | Watercolor painting, American -- United States -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. | Watercolor painting. | Watercolor painting, American. | United States. | USA | Aquarell
Form/Genre:
Illustrated works. | Exhibition catalogs. | Exhibition catalogs. | Illustrated works.
Contributors:
Philadelphia Museum of Art, host institution, publisher, issuing body.