{"product_id":"spectacular-freedom-andrew-wyeth-and-the-modern-american-watercolor","title":"Spectacular Freedom: Andrew Wyeth and the Modern American Watercolor","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAVAILABLE IN OCTOBER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBeginning in the 1930s, Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009) built a monumental reputation for his watercolors—described by one critic at the time as having a “spectacular freedom.” In the medium, Wyeth depicted the people and places that surrounded him in rural Pennsylvania and Maine in expressive and evocative compositions. Though he later became known for his tempera paintings, he never ceased to work in watercolor, using the medium for both preliminary and finished works throughout his storied career.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eExploring Wyeth’s use of watercolors, the official exhibition catalogue features rarely seen works from the artist’s estate and considers the role of the medium within Wyeth’s larger oeuvre. It illuminates new aspects of the artist’s formative period by situating Wyeth’s early experiments in the context of an explosion of interest in watercolor and the promotion of the medium as distinctively American, and it includes scholarly essays that reveal how Wyeth—an artist who embraced precise realism at a time when many of his peers favored abstraction—used watercolor to engage with the question of what it means to be both modern and American. \u003cem\u003eHardcover, 168 pages.\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53294692073839,"sku":"74742","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0274\/6368\/0098\/files\/Wyeth.png?v=1786737260","url":"https:\/\/shop.famsf.org\/products\/spectacular-freedom-andrew-wyeth-and-the-modern-american-watercolor","provider":"de Young \u0026 Legion of Honor Museum Stores","version":"1.0","type":"link"}