Kevin J. Avery, "American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Before 1835"
2002 | ISBN: 0300093721 | English | PDF | 424 pages | 97.2 MB
2002 | ISBN: 0300093721 | English | PDF | 424 pages | 97.2 MB
The Metropolitan Museum began acquiring American drawings and watercolors in 1880, just ten years after its founding. Since then it has amassed more than 1,500 works executed by American artists during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in watercolor, pastel, chalk, ink, graphite, gouache, and charcoal. Roughly a third of the collection is by John Singer Sargent and was published as a single volume in 2000. …