…following quote taken from the Philadelphia Museum of Art website.  “The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present the most comprehensive loan exhibition in over forty years devoted to the most important chapter in the history of watercolor painting in this country. American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent will bring together more than 170 works—many of them acknowledged masterpieces of this difficult, yet rewarding medium—drawn from public and private collections throughout the country. Tracing the development of the watercolor movement from its passionate embrace by a small, but dedicated group of painters in the 1860s to the flowering of Modernism, this sweeping survey will examine the remarkable transformation of the medium that occurred in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

121,720 objects from the Museum’s collection of over 240,000 are available in the online collections database. This information changes weekly as objects are added, updated, and enhanced with current research.”

For more information, visit Philadelphia Museum of Art at the above web site.