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NATURE INTO ART: ENGLISH LANDSCAPE WATERCOLORS FROM THE BRITISH MUSEUM, Cleveland Museum of Art. A generous sampling from the B.M.'s great collection, including paintings by Gainsborough, Constable and Turner, as well as such lesser known masters as Thomas Girtin and John Sell Cotman. Through March...
...Water-meadows at Salisbury, 1829, rejected by the Royal Academy of Arts as "a nasty green thing," but also the cloud studies and several of his grandest oils, such as The Lock, 1822-24. There are also such painters as John Sell Cotman, Samuel Palmer, Francis Towne and Thomas Girtin, whose images of landscape exhale the sweet breath of exact vision through its quintessential medium, the watercolor sketch, while the apocalyptic side of English Romanticism gets full play in William Blake and John ("Mad") Martin...
...Daumier's golden glimpse of a washerwoman ascending the steps from the river to the Quai d'Anjou, where the painter lived. A few hundred yards farther down the river, Paris' crowded Pont Neuf, the city's oldest bridge despite its name, was painted by Girtin, Renoir, Pissarro. A farewell was paid to Paris by several artists, among them the Dutchman Johann Barthold Jongkind, with a lovely view of Notre Dame towering over the river barges...
...most important men shown are Girtin, the youthful innovator, Cox, DeWint, Cotman, Blake, and Turner...
...Turner, Girtin, Cotman, and Ruskin--these are the personalities which pervade the first floor galleries at Fogg this month in an exhibition of English water colors, which follows a similar show of American colorists held during February...