A Supple Brush: The Flowering of Continental Watercolors

About the exhibition

The Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore presented A Supple Brush: The Flowering of Continental Watercolors in 1979. The exhibition explored continental European watercolours through the particular sheets recorded in the museum’s collection dataset. The documented selection includes Mariano Fortuny’s The Rare Vase (1870; watercolor and opaque watercolor with selectively applied glaze over traces of charcoal (?) on paper) and Honoré Daumier’s The First Class Carriage (1864; watercolor, ink wash and charcoal on slightly textured, moderately thick, cream wove paper). The identified works form a partial checklist. Exact opening and closing days and the remaining works require further catalogue research.