Wokey Hole, near Wells, Somerset, c.1794 by Michael Angelo Rooker.
Rooker helped make watercolor a viable medium for serious artists. Before he concentrated on it, it was considered beneath a serious artist.
Tag: watercolor
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Souvenirs
Dromos, or outer Court of the Great Temple at Edfou in Upper Egypt by David Roberts, RA 1796-1864
Dated 1840 and inscribed ‘EDFOU, UPPER EGYPT’ Roberts painted watercolors of ruins in Egypt and reproduced them as lithographs and sold them in London to disciples of the Grand Tour.
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What are Your Neighbors Up To?
The Little Bay, Port Vendres by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
In the last four years of his life Mackintosh left Scotland for France. Although he painted some beautiful watercolors of the area he is not well known there. Exhibitions of his work, including his architecture and furniture designs, have been organized to show the people of the area the work of the architect/artist/designer who lived in their town.
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Jeremy’s Place
Waterlilies, 1903 by Beatrix Potter, ©Beatrix Potter Trust, U.K.
Most people have heard of Peter Rabbit and Tom Kitten and their creator Beatrix Potter, but they are not as aware of her botanical studies of nature and her accomplished watercolor paintings.
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Colored Glass
Still Life, watercolor by Michael J. Weber.
Lovely realistic watercolor full of color and familiar objects.
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Jewel Tones
Maharaja Jaswant Singh of Marwar, ca. 1880, watercolor, The Brooklyn Museum.
The simple setting of this watercolor work is unusual and it has more in common with a photograph than a painting. It reflects the influence of the British on India in it’s more austere setting and pose.
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Patchwork
The Boulders by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, c. 1923-26, Hunterian Art Gallery, U of Glasgow.
This C.R. Mackintosh watercolor was done after he had arrived in the south of France on the Mediterranean coast where he was struck by the natural rock formations and sets them up in this painting as a contrast to the roofs of the buildings.
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Before Social Distancing
Beach Scene by Martha Walter
Another in my on-going series of artists I discover on Pinterest.
Martha Walter (1875-1976) was a student of William Merritt Chase at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and later became a teacher at the New York School of Art, run by Chase. She developed her own loose style and preferred work in the Plein-Air technique.
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On the Water
Venetian Palace by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1914, Hunterian Art Gallery, University of GlasgowAlthough the title seems to indicate that this work was done in Venice, Italy, it tongue-in-cheek, because it was actually done in Suffolk England, the city of Walberswick, to be exact. Mackintosh who was working primarily as an architect, took-up watercolor (an earlier pursuit) when commissions slowed.
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