Drawings and Watercolors: 18th and 19th Century

Featuring 147 works on paper from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this collection showcases the intimate and expressive traditions of American drawing and watercolor. From early Federal-era portrait studies and Romantic-period landscape sketches to the refined watercolors of the American Renaissance, these works reveal the hand of the artist in its most direct form. The collection includes studies by leading figures of their era alongside lesser-known practitioners, illustrating the breadth of artistic practice in early America and the central role that works on paper played in the development of American art.