a luminous medium | watercolor paintings from the permanent collection
This exhibition closed June 2023.
View the works in the exhibition on our online collection database here.
American watercolor painting, once considered a medium best suited to amateur artists and preliminary sketches, was by the twentieth century, a highly desired medium favored by talented professionals for its unique qualities and dazzling effects.
A difficult medium to master, watercolor is often unforgiving and renders even the most minor paint misapplication difficult to correct. It is also unpredictable because of its fluid nature, which makes it hard to control. The most successful painters recognize these challenges, embrace them, and utilize them to achieve a dazzling transparency and luminosity attainable only by watercolor.
This exhibition features sixteen paintings selected from the museum’s permanent collection.
