Until May 14, 2017, the Philadelphia Museum of Art Presents: “American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent”
“Although widely practiced in the US before the Civil War, watercolor painting existed at the margins of the professional art world. Considered the domain of amateurs, women, and commercial artists, it drew little interest from the mainstream painters of the mid-1800s.
Watercolor’s reputation changed with the creation of the American Watercolor Society in 1866.”
American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent
Philadelphia Museum of Art
2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia
(Image: 2 cats, 1912, Stuart Davis)
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