Awash in Color: Homer, Sargent, and the Great American Watercolor

ISBN-10
0821220209
ISBN-13
9780821220207
Category
Art
Pages
266
Language
English
Published
1993
Publisher
Bulfinch Press
Authors
Carol Troyen, Sue Welsh Reed

Description

Features the most beautiful watercolors in the impressive collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The authors survey the development of the medium and discuss each painting to provide, in aggregate, a history of American watercolors that has become the standard reference on the subject.

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