Discover how American watercolorists from Winslow Homer to Hannah Wilke leveraged the imaginative and experimental capacity of the medium to create marvelously diverse works over more than a century.

On view at the Harvard Art Museums from May 20 to August 13, 2023, the exhibition presents more than a hundred compelling and rarely seen watercolors by both well-known and historically underrepresented American artists. All works are drawn from the Harvard Art Museums’ deep and diverse holdings. Expanding the canon and including many new acquisitions on view for the first time, the exhibition seeks to inspire conversations and enrich today’s practitioners.

Staged across three adjacent galleries, the exhibition presents works by roughly 50 artists, including Romare Bearden, Charles Burchfield, Alexander Calder, Dorothy Dehner, Beauford Delaney, Charles Demuth, Lyonel Feininger, Zelda Fitzgerald, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Jasper Johns, John La Farge, Sol LeWitt, John Marin, Alfonso Ossorio, Maurice Prendergast, Mark Rothko, John Singer Sargent, Bill Traylor, Richard Tuttle, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Hannah Wilke, Richard Foster Yarde, and many others.