The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will celebrate the centenary of the birth of one of its most important benefactors, the late Paul Mellon, with Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art.
The exhibition will be on view from July 11 to Sept. 30, 2007.
"Great British Watercolors" brings together 88 outstanding watercolors from the collection of Paul Mellon, including masterpieces by J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), John Constable (1776-1837), William Blake (1757-1827), Paul Sandby (1730/1-1809), Thomas Girtin (1775-1802) and Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), according to Dr. Mitchell Merling, VMFA's Paul Mellon Curator and Head of the Department of European Art.
"In all, 45 artists will be represented in a show that will span approximately 100 years - from the emergence of watercolor painting in the mid-18th century to its apogee in the late 19th century," he says.
The exhibition will highlight what Merling calls "the extraordinary diversity of British watercolor painting, showcasing both landscape and figurative works by some of the principal artists who worked in the medium."
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