Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon collection at the Yale Center for British Art
Hargraves, Matthew [1978-]
Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon collection at the Yale Center for British Art - New Haven, CT Yale University Press 2007
Issued in connection with an exhibition in Richmond, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, July 11-September 30, 2007; and in St. Petersburg, at the Hermitage, October-December 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index. ""Paul Mellon (1907-1999) assembled one of the world's greatest collections of British drawings and watercolors.... This catalogue celebrates the centenary of Mellon's birth and features eighty-eight outstanding watercolors from the fifty thousand works of art on paper with which he endowed the Yale Center for British Art. The selection spans the emergence of watercolor painting in the mid-18th century to its apogee in the mid-19th. These works highlight the diversity of British watercolors, showcasing both landscape and figurative works by some of the principal artists working in the medium, including Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Rowlandson, William Blake, and J. M. W. Turner""--Publisher's description. 2021"
0300259506
Watercolor painting, British--Exhibitions
Mellon, Paul--Art collections--Exhibitions
Watercolor painting--Connecticut--New Haven--Exhibitions
Yale Center for British Art--Exhibitions
Art--Private collections
Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon collection at the Yale Center for British Art - New Haven, CT Yale University Press 2007
Issued in connection with an exhibition in Richmond, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, July 11-September 30, 2007; and in St. Petersburg, at the Hermitage, October-December 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index. ""Paul Mellon (1907-1999) assembled one of the world's greatest collections of British drawings and watercolors.... This catalogue celebrates the centenary of Mellon's birth and features eighty-eight outstanding watercolors from the fifty thousand works of art on paper with which he endowed the Yale Center for British Art. The selection spans the emergence of watercolor painting in the mid-18th century to its apogee in the mid-19th. These works highlight the diversity of British watercolors, showcasing both landscape and figurative works by some of the principal artists working in the medium, including Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Rowlandson, William Blake, and J. M. W. Turner""--Publisher's description. 2021"
0300259506
Watercolor painting, British--Exhibitions
Mellon, Paul--Art collections--Exhibitions
Watercolor painting--Connecticut--New Haven--Exhibitions
Yale Center for British Art--Exhibitions
Art--Private collections