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Philadelphia Museum of Art Features Watercolors by Homer and Sargent
Amy Henderson | Artes Magazine | 7th March 2017
Nineteenth century artists regarded watercolour as a medium appropriate for illustrators, and women. But then along came Winslow Homer and John Singer Sergent. They made watercolour “the American medium” and according to one critic “pried a gate open in the national imagination”. That, it seems, was not the only gate opened – one also opened up for women artists. More images are here.