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Before Photography, Watercolorists Documented the Luscious Variety of Fruits and Nuts

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford April 25, 2021April 23, 2021

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

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford November 12, 2020November 11, 2020

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

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez March 14, 2020March 13, 2020

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

Avatar photo by Jasmine Weber February 1, 2019

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

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 25, 2016November 28, 2016

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

by Julia Friedman December 23, 2014December 23, 2014

In 2013, the National Gallery of Art began digitizing their enormous collection of roughly 18,000 watercolors from the Index of American Design.

Shary Boyle Ventures Outside the Palace of Me at the Museum of Arts and Design
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Shary Boyle Ventures Outside the Palace of Me at the Museum of Arts and Design

The multisensory solo exhibition of new works by the Canadian visual artist includes sculpted ceramics and life-sized automatons. On view in NYC.

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