Artist and League watercolor instructor Frederick Brosen discusses 10 watercolorists.

The watercolor medium, as the first truly portable plein air painting medium, has played a seminal but often underappreciated role in the rise of modern painting. Starting with 17th century Holland and concluding at the dawn of the 20th century, a brief historical survey of a small group of artists, from the worldfamous to those familiar only to specialists, will illuminate the contributions watercolorists have made in the evolution of landscape art in particular, and modernism overall.

06:30 — Adriaen van Ostade
11:19 — Giovanni Battista Lusieri
17:07 — John Robert Cozens
22:37 — Caspar David Friedrich
28:14 — Thomas Girtin
32:03 — William Turner
34:57 — John Sell Cotman
37:37 — Richard Parkes Bonington
43:37 — François Marius Granet
49:40 — Rudolf von Alt
55:23 — Works by Frederick Brosen