Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30)Oil on Water - Oil Sketches by British Watercolorists (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-08-26 - 1986-11-09)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Oil on water : oil sketches by British watercolorists, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1986, pp. 16-17, fig. 3, ND467 C67 (YCBA)Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 168-169, no. 73, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Richard Parkes Bonington’s family moved from England to France while he was still in his teens, settling just across the English Channel in Calais. There he received tuition in watercolor from Louis Francia before going on to the Paris studio of the history painter Baron Antoine-Jean Gros. Returning regularly to the French coast, he painted landscapes in a bravura watercolor technique that was immensely influential on both sides of the Channel. His tragically early death only enhanced his reputation. Gallery label for Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)