Title: Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon collection at the Yale Center for British Art /
Authors: Hargraves, Matthew, 1978-; Yale Center for British Art.; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Publisher: Yale Center for British Art ; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts ; Yale University Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Mellon, Paul Art collections Exhibitions.; Yale Center for British Art Exhibitions.; Watercolor painting, British Exhibitions.; Watercolor painting Private collections Connecticut New Haven Exhibitions.
Abstract: "In a period of a little over fifteen years, beginning in the early 1960s, Paul Mellon (1907-1999) assembled one of the world's greatest collections of British drawings and watercolors. As part of his extensive collecting of British art, he purchased several distinguished private collections of British watercolors, enriching and expanding them with purchases reflecting his own taste." "This catalogue of an exhibition celebrating the centenary of Paul Mellon's birth 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 roughly the hundred years from the emergence of watercolor painting in the mid-eighteenth century to its apogee in the mid-nineteenth. These works highlight the diversity of British watercolor painting, showcasing both landscape and figurative subjects by some of the principal artists working in the medium, including Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Rowlandson, William Blake, J.M.W. Turner, and John Constable."--Jacket.
Contents: Directors' Foreword / Amy Meyers and Alexander Lee Nyerges -- A Special order of excellence / Scott Wilcox -- Catalogue / Matthew Hargraves : William Taverner ; Alexander Cozens ; Paul Sandby ; Thomas Gainsborough ; Jonathan Skelton ; Francis Towne ; William Pars ; Michael "Angelo" Rooker ; Thomas Hearne ; John "Warwick" Smith ; John Robert Cozens ; Thomas Rowlandson ; William Blake ; John Thomas Serres ; Julius Caesar Ibbetson ; Edward Francis Burney ; Joshua Cristall ; William Daniell ; Robert Hills ; Francis Francia ; Thomas Girtin ; J.M.W. Turner; John Constable ; John Varley ; Cornelius Varley ; John Sell Cotman ; Peter de Wint ; David Wilkie ; Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding ; George Fennel Robson ; John Martin ; William Henry Hunt ; James Pollard ; Samuel Jackson ; David Roberts ; Richard Parkes Bonington ; Thomas Shotter Boys ; John Frederick Lewis ; Samuel Palmer ; Charles Bentley ; William Callow ; Edward Lear ; George Arthur Fripp ; Richard Dadd ; William Simpson.