American Watercolors from the Permanent Collection
Saturday, May 14, 2011 — Sunday, Aug 07, 2011
This exhibition featured American watercolors from the mid-19th century to the 1970s from the permanent collection of the Georgia Museum of Art. Paintings by Jasper Francis Cropsey, William Stanley Haseltine and Frederic Remington demonstrate the importance of the medium in American 19th-century art while American moderns Charles Burchfield, John Marin and Andrew Wyeth represent true masters of watercolor. Some American painters used the medium to create drawings or compositional studies, including Elaine de Kooning in her sketch of a sculpture in Paris. Others used it to make a final, finished product, emphasizing technique and enjoying its immediacy and spontaneity. Robert Bechtle’s “Palm Spring Chairs” (1975) is a highly detailed and meticulously painted watercolor that has the feel of a vacation snapshot of a motel pool.
Curator
Paul Manoguerra, chief curator and curator of American art
Sponsors
Kathy Prescott and Grady Thrasher, YellowBook USA, the W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art