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John Singer Sargent, “In a Levantine Port,” about 1905–06, watercolor, Brooklyn Museum.

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Winslow Homer, “In a Jungle, Florida,” 1904, watercolor over graphite on paper, Brooklyn Museum.

For 2-15 per dss

WATERCOLORS WILL MAKE A SPLASH

AT TAFT MUSEUM OF ART FEB. 22, 2 CUTS

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CINCINNATI, OHIO — The Taft Museum of Art will showcase the work of some of the nation’s most celebrated artists in its  upcoming exhibition, “From Winslow Homer to Edward Hopper: American Watercolor Masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum” on view February 22–May 11.

The exhibition will feature 70 premier American watercolor paintings from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, which holds one of the oldest public collections of American art in the United States. Ranging in date from the late Eighteenth Century to 1945, the works represent major movements in American art, with an emphasis on landscape and scenes of daily life.

Visitors will see picturesque view-painting from late Eighteenth Century,  ideal landscapes by artists of the Hudson River School, post-Civil War realism, American Impressionism, early Twentieth Century modernist abstractions, and American Scene painting of the 1920s and 1930s, also known as Regionalism.

Some of the greatest American practitioners of the watercolor medium are among the featured artists, including Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, John Singer Sargent, Maurice Prendergast, John Marin and Edward Hopper. With a wide variety of styles and genres, the selection constitutes a rich survey of the development of American art and watercolor practice  in the United States over the course of 200 years.

The exhibition has been organized by the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

The Taft Museum of Art is at 316 Pike Street downtown. For information, 513-241-0343 or www.taftmuseum.org.