5 American Watercolorists

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Spanierman Gallery, LLC is pleased to announce the opening on September 29, 2009 of Five American Watercolorists: Sears Gallagher, Hayley Lever, Dodge Macknight, Annie Gooding Sykes, and John Whorf. Although many American artists explored watercolor as the medium increasingly gained popularity beginning in the mid-nineteenth century and continuing into the Impressionist era, few were primarily watercolorists until the second decade of the twentieth century. Among them are the five artists in this exhibition, for whom there was no better way to look at the world around them than through the lens afforded by watercolor, with its verve and spontaneity. The careers of these artists coincided with a period when the quickness, confidence, and certainty that watercolor encouraged made it seem an ideal artistic manifestation of the American spirit. This exhibition captures this optimism and sense of adventure with which these artists approached life.