Current Exhibitions
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From Winslow Homer to Edward Hopper: The Brooklyn Museum holds one of the oldest and finest public collections of American art in the United States, certainly within the top five in the country. Among its holdings is an extensive collection of watercolors. Seventy of the best will be lent to the Taft Museum of Art. Ranging in date from the late 18th century to 1945, the works represent all the major movements in American art, with an emphasis on landscape and scenes of daily life: late 18th-century picturesque view-painting; the Hudson River School’s ideal landscapes; post–Civil War realism; American Impressionism; early 20th-century modernist abstractions; and American Scene painting of the 1920s and 30s, also known as Regionalism. Among the featured artists are some of the finest American practitioners of the watercolor medium, including Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, John Singer Sargent, Maurice Prendergast, John Marin, and Edward Hopper. The artistic motifs represented in the exhibition range from Coney Island to Santa Barbara and from Spain to Tahiti. This selection constitutes a rich and informative survey of the development of landscape art and watercolor practice in the United States over the course of two hundred years. From Winslow Homer to Edward Hopper: American Watercolor Masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum has been organized by the Brooklyn Museum. |
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Turner Watercolors from the Taft Collections Along with two major oil paintings, one from early in his career and one late, the Taft Museum of Art holds ten watercolors by Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 1775–1851). Spanning the first half of the 19th century, these watercolors depict landscapes of Switzerland, Germany, England, Scotland, and Italy. Historically, they broke new ground in the artistic fields of book illustration, travel views, and the watercolor medium itself. |
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