Sunday Speakers

In America, watercolor emerged as a brash and individualistic medium that reflected our national character and helped us think about modern forms for articulating the value of what we see and experience, whether the subject was manmade or embedded in nature. Winslow Homer and John Marin, working in consecutive generations, were in some sense working on this project together—along with other important watercolor artists of the period. Martha Tedeschi, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums, discusses what these watercolor artists accomplished and the legacy they left.