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The Art of Orange and Blue
in Watercolor - Essay 2023
Featuring art from Belgium, Bulgaria, Britain, Finland, France, and the United States between 1823 and 2022
Study of Sea and Sky
Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), English
Watercolor on paper, 11" x 8" (w x h), circa 1823-1826
Tate Museum, London
Source: Tate, London
In the mid-1820s Turner worked on a set of twelve mezzotint plates, known as the Little Liber, or So-called Sequels to the Liber Studiorum, which all explore the dramatic effects of natural light. At least half of subjects are direct observation of the sea. The watercolor studies on which the prints were based are unusually freely executed and unresolved. When painting for translation into black and white prints Turner usually provided a greater level of detail to guide the engravers.
Blue Tangerine Feather
Klara, Bulgarian
Watercolor, Schmincke, on Saunders
Waterford paper, 8" x 11" (w x h), circa 2022
For sale on Etsy: $40 USD HERE
Source Etsy:
Klara lives in Sofia, Bulgaria. She graduated from the Sofia National Art Academy with a degree in textile and fashion and an ?? in Fashion Design at the Sofia National Academy. She works in pastels and watercolor with a focus on portraits and landscapes. She also paints scarves as original works of art. She a mother of two. Her website is HERE,
Rocks at Trayas
Henri-Edmond Cross (1856-1910), French
Watercolor on paper, 1902
Le Trayas is a small coastal village in the south France.
Source: Wiki
Henri-Edmond Cross, born Henri-Edmond-Joseph Delacroix, (1856-1910) was a French painter and printmaker. He is most acclaimed as a master of Neo-Impressionism and he played an important role in shaping the second phase of that movement. He was a friend of Theo van Rysselberghe (see the last watercolor in this selection). He was a significant influence on Henri Matisse and many other artists. His work was instrumental in the development of Fauvism. When Cross wanted to depict quick impressions, he created watercolor or colored pencil images in his sketchbooks.
He wrote of a rustic French outing: "Oh! What I saw in a split second while riding my bike tonight! I just had to jot down these fleeting things ... a rapid notation in watercolor and pencil: an informal daubing of contrasting colors, tones, and hues, all packed with information to make a lovely watercolor the next day in the quiet leisure of the studio."
In 1905 Galerie Druet in Paris mounted Cross's first solo exhibition, which featured thirty paintings and thirty watercolors.
Still Life with Blue Glass
Eileen Goodman (1937- ), American
Watercolor on paper, 26" x 33" (w x h), 1987
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Source: Woodmere Art Museum (edited)
Eileen Goodman (1937 - ) grew up in Montclair, NJ. She attended what was then called the Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts), which didn't have a major in painting, though included noted serious painters and fellow student and former husband Sidney Goodman.
Experimenting with smaller watercolor versions of her oil paintings, Goodman was attracted to the work of Pennsylvania modernist Charles Demuth, who described form through outline with exuberant gesture and saturated color. Eventually in the early 90s Goodman painted a number of pieces measuring five feet across, a scale more commonly afforded oil paintings. Foregoing oils altogether, she found ways to make watercolor with tonality and texture. As with Demuth, properties which render and make real are energized by looseness in the brushwork and layering of color.
Egypt Night and Day #222
Keith Achepohl (1934- ), American
Watercolor with touches of blue and orange crayon,
over graphite, on white wove paper 13" x 19" (w x h), 1981
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Source: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon
Keith Achepohl received a B.A. from Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois (1956), an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa (1960), and honorary doctorates from Pacific Lutheran University, Parkland, Washington (1989), and Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois (1996). He served as head of printmaking at the School of Art at the University of Iowa and director of the University of Iowa Summer in Venice. Among his numerous awards and recognitions are Fulbright grants in Egypt (1977) and Turkey (1984) and a National Endowment for the Arts grant (1994). Achepohl has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally. His works are held in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.; the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid, Spain; the Kobe Art Museum in Japan; the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art; and many others. His work has realized auction prices ranging from $38 USD to $1,125 USD, depending on the size and medium.
Typewriter Eraser
Claes Oldenburg (1929-2022), Swedish /American and
Coosje van Bruggen (1942-2009), Dutch/American
Watercolor and crayon on paper, 11" x 17" (w x h), 1977
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Claes and Coosje / Husband and Wife
Source: Wiki
Oldenburg and van Bruggen's sculpture Typewriter Eraser (1976), the third piece from an edition of three, was sold for $2.2 million at Christie's New York in 2009. Constructed in 1999, these wors are located at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., with others at Seattle Center near the Museum of Pop Culture, Seattle Washington, and CityCenter, Paradise, Nevada. Typewriter Eraser, Scale X is on view at the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida.
Claes Oldenburg (1929-2022) was a Swedish-born American sculptor best known for his public art installations, typically featuring large replicas of everyday objects. Another theme in his work is soft sculpture versions of everyday objects. Many of his works were made in collaboration with his second wife, Coosje van Bruggen, who died in 2009; they had been married for 32 years. Oldenburg lived and worked in New York City. Oldenburg's brother, art historian Richard E. Oldenburg, was director of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, between 1972 and 1993, and later chairman of Sotheby's America.
Coosje van Bruggen (1942-2009) was a Dutch-born American sculptor, art historian, and critic. She collaborated extensively with her husband, Claes Oldenburg. Born to a physician in Denmark, she studied history of art at the University of Groningen. From 1967 to 1971, she worked at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Van Bruggen married her first husband Paul Kapteyn, they had two children, Maartje Kapteyn and Paulus Kapteyn. In Amsterdam she worked with environmental artists like Doug Wheeler, Larry Bell, and the members of the Dutch avant-garde. Until 1976, van Bruggen taught at the Academy for Art and Industries in Enschede. She married her second husband, Claes Oldenburg, in 1977 and moved to New York the following year. In 1993 she became a United States citizen.
Untitled (Portrait of Mother) /
Nimetön (äidin muotokuva)
Kalervo Palsa (1947-1987), Finnish
Watercolor on paper, 16" x 19" (w x h), 1973
The State of Finland, Finnish National Gallery,
Helsinki, Finland
Source: Wiki
Huugo Kalervo Palsa, known as Kalle (1947-1987), was a Finnish artist whose style has been described as fantastic realism. Palsa was a native of Kittila in Lapland. While he lived there, his residence was a tiny studio cabin, closer to a shack than a house. It was connected to electricity by a long extension cable from a nearby house.
His two biggest supporters were his mother, and his soulmate/muse Maj-Lis Pitkänen, the sister of his childhood sweetheart Maaret. After his death Maj-Lis led a long-term campaign to install a memorial cenotaph for Palsa, which was sculpted by the Finnish artist, Pekka Pitkänen, Maj-Lis's husband. Although Kalervo's work did not draw significant attention in his lifetime, he's experienced a revival since the publication of critical works, a biography and two major retrospectives in Helsinki and Pori.
Cherries
Theo van Rysselberghe (1862-1926) Belgian
Watercolor on paper
Private Collection
Source: Wiki
Theophile "Theo" van Rysselberghe (1862-1926) was a Belgian neo-impressionist painter, who played a pivotal role in the European art scene at the turn of the century. Born in Ghent to a French-speaking bourgeois family, he studied first at the Academy of Ghent under Theo Canneel and from 1879 at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels under the directorship of Jean-François Portaels. The North African paintings of Portaels had started an orientalist fashion in Belgium. Their impact would strongly influence the young Théo van Rysselberghe. Between 1882 and 1888 he made three trips to Morocco, staying there a total of one year and half. He was a friend of Henri-Edmond Cross (see the third watercolor in this selection).
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