American watercolor in the age of Homer and Sargent /
"The formation of the American Watercolor Society in 1866 by a small, dedicated group of painters transformed the perception of what had long been considered a marginal medium. Artists of all ages, styles, and backgrounds took up watercolor in the 1870s, inspiring younger generations of impress...
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : New Haven, Connecticut :
Philadelphia Museum of Art ; Yale University Press,
[2017]
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| Language: | English |
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Table of 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.