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Aldo Raimondi

Specializing in watercolor painting, an exclusive piece of his repertoire, in 1939 he was appointed a professor of watercolors at the Academy of Brera, a chair he left immediately after the war to devote himself full-time to making films.

Benjamin Ivry

Mon Docteur, Le Vin (My Doctor, Wine) by Gaston Derys with Watercolors by Raoul Dufy, translated by Benjamin Ivry, 2003, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-10133-3

Boston Public Library, McKim Building

The library, for example, holds one of the major collections of watercolors and drawings by Thomas Rowlandson.

Charles Logasa

The show featured 34 or 35 works from New York, among them two watercolors by Paul Cézanne, two drawings and two oils by Pablo Picasso, a drawing and a watercolor by Henri Matisse and two Georges Braque.

Flag of the President of the United States

Edward C. Kuhn, a designer of many early U.S. Army insignia and coats of arms, made a series of watercolors of older presidential flags.

Francis Focer Brown

In these artistic expressions, Brown experimented with bold color palates and often nearly formless subject matter which was often intertwined with atmospherics and light in a manner very similar, in substance, to those of Charles Burchfield in watercolors, and the Vincent van Gogh signature style, especially when working in egg Tempera or Oils.

George Elbert Burr

Over the next five years, as they traveled in Italy, Germany, and the British Isles, Burr amassed sketches and watercolors that would provide the source material for his copperplate etchings of European scenes.

Halina Jaworski

Around this time she created the first series of watercolors on paper, called Ansichtskarten (Postcards), shown among others in 1991 at the Richard Demarco Gallery in Edinburgh.

Jacob Kornerup

His acquaintance with the archeologist Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae encouraged him to become involved in the restoration of historical buildings in collaboration with the National Museum, leading to hundreds of drawings and watercolors which are now in the museum's archives.

Johnny Bach

In 2007, thirty-two of his watercolors were put on display at the Sevan Gallery in Skokie, Illinois.

José-Maria de Heredia

In the original work, he called to his great friend, the artist Ernest Jean-Marie Millard de Bois Durand, to illustrate his book of original watercolors.

Leo Hershfield

After moving to Bradenton, FL in 1958, Hershfield continued to illustrate books and articles for the St. Petersburg Times and Sarasota Herald Tribune, spending his spare time sailing the Manatee River and documenting Florida through watercolors.

Margaret Graham

Margaret Nowell Graham (1867-1942), American artist who painted with watercolors

Nick de Angelis

In his early career de Angelis painted exquisite watercolors of street life and café scenes, paintings of Paris and the Seine and of New York coffee houses.

Philip Fishbourne Wharton

He also painted many watercolors, chiefly scenes in Florida and Nassau.

Pierre Deval

He experimented with different styles, and in 1926 he painted five watercolors of modern Parisian life for a book L’ecole des indifferents’ by Jean Giraudoux.

Pierre Heymann

Refusing to pay to show his work, he exhibited for the first time in 1975 in Paris at the International House a series of 40 drawings, gouaches, watercolors, acrylics and oils.

Princess Maria Tenisheva

Tenisheva collected watercolors and was friends with famous artists: Vasnetsov, Vrubel, Roerich, Malyutin, Benois, sculptor Paolo Troubetzkoy, and many other artists.

Roger Welch

Beginning in 2003, Welch produced a series of sculptures, watercolors such as Yankee Stadium in Meteor Crater, and videos juxtaposing landscapes or combining geologic formations with contemporary man-made structures.

Tasha Tudor

Many of her personal artifacts and doll house objects were shown there as well as the manuscripts and watercolors for Corgiville Fair and A Time to Keep.

Thomas Charles Farrar

He was a member of the New York Etching Club and of the American Society of Painters in Watercolors.

Timothy Y. Hewlett

In addition to his work as an architect, Hewlett was an artist whose watercolors have been exhibited at the Toledo Museum of Art and the Florida Gulf Coast Art Center.


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