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American Watercolors
March 25, 2000 -- May 14 2000
"American Watercolors" is one
of several special exhibitions to open the new Audrey Jones Beck Building
of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on March 25, 2000. To commemorate this
occasion, and to recognize the organization of Watermedia 2000 by the Watercolor
Art Society-Houston, the museum presents thirty-five important watercolors
from its own collection and public collections in Texas. Featuring works
from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1990s, "American Watercolors"
demonstrates how artists have continued to explore the aesthetic potential
of the watercolor technique. (left: John Marin, The Little Sailboat,
1924, watercolor and charcoal on wove paper, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
Museum purchase with funds provided by The Brown Foundation, Inc. and by
bequest of Ida R. Nussbaum by exchange, 75.4)
From John James Audubon to Brice Marsden, and including
such giants of the medium as Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, and John
Marin, this exhibition will convey through carefully selected examples the
tradition and continuing vitality of the watercolor medium in American art.
Other highlights 
include
the colorful works of Maurice Brazil Prendergast, the mystical, eerie work
of the American Scene painter Charles Burchfield, and the abstractions of
Eva Hesse. (right: John James Audobon, Douglas's Squirrel,
c. 1841-43, Pencil, ink and watercolor onpaper, original watercolor for
the 1845 folio Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase with funds provided by "One Great
NIght in November, 1994" 94.432)
This exhibition is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston and curated by Emily Neff, curator of American sculpture and painting,
and Barry Walker, curator of prints and drawings. The Audrey Jones Beck
Building, Brown Foundation Gallery is the location for this exhibit.
Read more in Resource Library
Magazine about the Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston.
For further biographical information on selected artists
cited above please see America's Distinguished
Artists, a national registry of historic artists.
Please click on thumbnail images bordered by a red line
to see enlargements.
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"American Watercolors" is one
of several special exhibitions to open the new Audrey Jones Beck Building
of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on March 25, 2000. To commemorate this
occasion, and to recognize the organization of Watermedia 2000 by the Watercolor
Art Society-Houston, the museum presents thirty-five important watercolors
from its own collection and public collections in Texas. Featuring works
from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1990s, "American Watercolors"
demonstrates how artists have continued to explore the aesthetic potential
of the watercolor technique. (left: John Marin, The Little Sailboat,
1924, watercolor and charcoal on wove paper, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
Museum purchase with funds provided by The Brown Foundation, Inc. and by
bequest of Ida R. Nussbaum by exchange, 75.4)