===20th century===Among the many 20th-century artists who produced important works in watercolor, mention must be made of Wassily Kandinsky, Emil Nolde, Paul Klee, Egon Schiele and Raoul Dufy; in America the major exponents included Charles Burchfield, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Demuth, and John Marin, 80% of whose total output is in watercolor.
Manj priljubljen je bil akvarel v celinski Evropi, čeprav je bilo narejenih veliko lepih primerov francoskih slikarjev kot so Eugène Delacroix, François Marius Granet, Henri-Joseph Harpignies, Paul Signac, Paul Cézanne in drugi.