Watercolor over graphite on medium, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 5/8 x 17 inches (16.8 x 43.2 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.2578
Gallery Label:
Peter DeWint trained as an engraver and portrait painter, but under the influence of John Varley he switched to landscape painting in watercolors. His generalizing approach to scenery finds its origins in Girtin's picturesque, both artists ordering the land into patterns of color, light, and shade moving into expansive horizons. To this end DeWint generally employed just two brushes, both broad but one old and blunted, the other fresh and with a sharp point. With the older brush he would lay in sweeping washes of dilute color and then work over the details with the pointed tip of his newer brush. 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)
