Word: watercolor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Watercolor, in the 18th and 19th centuries, was known on the Continent as the "English style"-a bow to the fact that though artists in many lands used the medium, none used it with greater enthusiasm than the painters of England. This month the National Gallery in Washington opens an exhibition of 200 English drawings and watercolors from the Mellon collection and from twelve British museums and the Queen's private collection (see color). There will be few shows in 1962 more pleasing...
...credit for the watercolor's popularity in England, some scholars say, goes to the British aristocracy. Young lords and gentlemen who took the Grand Tour got the urge to make a visual record of what they saw, and it became a matter of pride to know how to draw. As early as 1622, Henry Peacham's The Compleat Gentleman included drawing as an essential part of the aristocrat's education; later editions of the book contained a whole section on "Lantskip.'' The aristocratic amateurs produced no masterpieces of their own, but they set the stage...
...travels, and of their own stately homes. This led to a longing for original drawings, which in turn gave way to a yearning for color. An Englishman produced a paper treated to withstand innumerable washings and spongings. With the demand so great and with new materials at hand, the watercolor became not only good art but also good business. Though the Royal Academy was slow to accept it, the public was enchanted...
...opens Wednesday. Co-sponsored by the Peabody Museum, this exhibition contains over 300 objects, including a grouping of pre-Columbian gold. "18th Century New England Embroideries" will remain on display in Gallery D 21, as will "20th Century Prints by Contemporary Artists" in the Hemicycle and "English and French Watercolors" in the Watercolor Corridor. A display in the Book Corridor will demonstrate "French Design and Decoration for the Craftsman of the 18th Century." In Gallery D 45 a display of communion silver from the First Parish Congregational Church in Milton will begin on Sunday. Recent accessions on display include 16th...
...nursery rhyme. Small Seurat peasants bend to their toil near some childlike magic created by Paul Klee and a few austere and haunting landscapes by Lyonel Feininger. And near them hang the museum's latest acquisitions-two perfect chrysanthemums, one in pencil, the other in watercolor-done by Piet Mondrian in the days before he began painting his color-laden grilles...