Images: Header and August At Night: Photo: Caitlin Cunningham Photography. Immersed in Watercolor: John Marin, Seascape, 1914. Watercolor over graphite on white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of James N. Rosenberg, 1950.48. © Estate of John Marin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Artists Illuminated: Richard Foster Yarde, American, Cunard Street, Interior II, 1980. Watercolor on white wove paper, three sheets overlapping, not joined. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.214. © Estate of Richard Foster Yarde.
Support for American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light is provided by the Alexander S., Robert L., and Bruce A. Beal Exhibition Fund, the William Amory Fund, the Rabb Family Exhibitions Fund, and an anonymous donor. Related programming is supported by the M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Series Endowment Fund. The accompanying catalogue was made possible by the Andrew W. Mellon Publication Funds and the Wyeth Foundation for American Art.