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1. Watercolor Landscape Masters
Homer, Wyeth, Moran, Hassam, Dufy,
Schmidt-Rotluff
Glenn Hirsch

2. Winslow Homer (1836 – 1910)
An American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his
marine subjects.
Largely self-taught, Homer began his career working as a
commercial illustrator.
He also worked extensively in watercolor, creating a fluid and prolific
oeuvre, primarily chronicling his working vacations.

16. Andrew Wyeth
(1917-2009)
Wyeth said that although he was thought of as a realist, he
thought of himself as an abstractionist.

27. Thomas Moran
(1837 –1926)
American painter and printmaker of the
Hudson River School in New York whose work
often featured the Rocky Mountains.
Art in this style seeks a direct, unmediated
connection to Nature as a source of salvation
for the soul.

35. Frederick Childe Hassam
(1859 –1935)
American Impressionist painter, who, along with Mary
Cassatt, was instrumental in promoting Impressionism
in America.
He produced over 3,000 paintings, watercolors,
etchings, and lithographs

41. Raoul Dufy
(1877 – 1953)
French Fauvist painter who developed a colorful, decorative style that
became fashionable for designs of ceramics and textiles, as well as
decorative schemes for public buildings.
Dufy's cheerful oils and watercolors depict events of the time period,
including yachting scenes, sparkling views of the French Riviera, chic
parties, and musical events.
Dufy completed one of the largest paintings ever contemplated, a huge
and immensely popular ode to electricity, the fresco La Fée Electricité for
the 1937 Exposition Internationale in Paris. It is 32 feet high by 204 feet
long.

46. Visitors to the Paris International Exposition of 1937 were shown a hymn to electricity in
Dufy's mural, La Fee Electricite. The painting is 200 feet long and 33 feet high.

48. Detail of the Fee Electricite for the 1937 Paris International Exposition

49. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
(1884 – 1976)
German expressionist painter and printmaker interested in
"primitive" art, and the expression of extreme emotion
through high-keyed color