Between 1886 and 1942, the US Department of Agriculture commissioned watercolorists to document the food from farms and orchards.
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A New Book Awash With the Glories of Watercolor
Watercolor: A History features over 300 dazzling, full-color illustrations, all specially printed on Munken paper to capture the intensity and texture of the original works.
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The Art of Perception
In a new exhibition, the Chinese artist Guo Hongwei uses watercolor to vividly depict nature’s forms — and gently tease the eye.
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The Watercolour World Documents the Planet Before Photography
The initiative has already digitized 80,000 images, categorized and made searchable to the public.
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Searching for a Shaman in a Hand-Painted Video Game
Teku Studios spent four years hand-painting a watercolor world for their game Candle, in which players decode puzzles through clues embedded in the art.
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Idyllic, Depression-Era Watercolors of American Design
In 2013, the National Gallery of Art began digitizing their enormous collection of roughly 18,000 watercolors from the Index of American Design.