Philadelphia Museum of Art | American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent

American Watercolor
in the Age of Homer and Sargent

March 1, 2017 - May 14, 2017

This extraordinary gathering of rarely seen masterpieces traces the rise of a uniquely American medium.

WINSLOW HOMER (AMERICAN, 1836-1910). DIAMOND SHOAL. 1905
Watercolor and graphite on paper, Sheet: 14 × 21 7/8 inches. Private Collection.

Tracing the development of the watercolor movement from the 1860s to the flowering of Modernism, American Watercolor will be the most comprehensive loan exhibition in over forty years devoted to this important chapter in the history of painting in America.

Centered on the achievements of two of watercolor’s most influential practitioners, Winslow Homer (1836-1910) and John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), this sweeping survey will examine the remarkable transformation of the medium that occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The exhibition will bring together more than 170 works—many of them acknowledged masterpieces—drawn from public and private collections throughout the United States.

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