American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent

"The exhibition and its sumptuous companion book fully explore the reasons for this bracing aesthetic change and the resulting legacy of the American watercolor movement."—Barrymore Laurence Scherer, Wall Street Journal

"[T]his beauty of a book, part in-depth scholarly history and part lavish representation of an outstanding 175-piece art show . . . cover[s] a pivotal half-century of American art in thoroughly documented and imaginative chapters."—Library Journal

"Through the catalogue—a noble, handsome, five-hundred-page beast of a tome that will provide much consolation and a measure of absolution if you can’t see the exhibition in person—one can travel through her palatial understanding of the art scene at the time, one that witnessed the flowering of a previously dismissed medium, an associated emergence of talented women artists (speaking of previous dismissal), and a transformation of American taste from a preference for dogged craftsmanship to an appreciation for a wrist with a bit of flair."—Franklin Einspruch, The New Criterion