RESIST: Watercolor Techniques (Episode 2)
When you look at John Singer Sargent’s “Gardens at Florence,” what do you see? Flowers, trees, a path—but also scratches, fingerprints, and wax! Sargent used wax to prevent areas of wash from adhering to the paper or to separate layers of color, a method known as a “resist.”
In this series, curator Miriam Stewart and conservator Penley Knipe demonstrate simple techniques employed by artists in our exhibition “American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light.” The exhibition is on view through August 13, 2023.
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Support for this exhibition is provided by the Alexander S., Robert L., and Bruce A. Beal Exhibition Fund, the William Amory Fund, the Rabb Family Exhibitions Fund, and an anonymous donor. Related programming is supported by the M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Series Endowment Fund. The accompanying catalogue was made possible by the Andrew W. Mellon Publication Funds and the Wyeth Foundation for American Art.
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Image: John Singer Sargent, “Gardens at Florence,” c. 1910. Transparent and opaque watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886, 1942.55. https://hvrd.art/o/307834
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