Monday, August 31, 2026

Aqueous

Eugène Delacroix
Study of a Coachman
ca. 1826
watercolor on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford


George Chinnery
Shipwreck in Storm
before 1857
watercolor on paper
British Museum

Edna Clarke Hall
Wuthering Heights - Catherine leaning against the wall
ca. 1900-1905
watercolor on paper
Tate Britain

John Singer Sargent
Portrait of Miss Marion Barnard
ca. 1909-11
watercolor and gouache on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

William Orpen
Bedroom Scene
ca. 1910
watercolor and ink on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Odilon Redon
The Blessing
ca. 1912
watercolor and gouache on paper
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Charles Demuth
Vaudeville Dancers
1918
watercolor on paper
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Paul Klee
The Bavarian Don Giovanni
1919
watercolor and ink on paper
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Oskar Kokoschka
Seated Woman
1922
watercolor on paper
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Marie Laurencin
Girl with Bow
ca. 1920-30
watercolor on paper
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Diego Rivera
May Day, Moscow
1928
watercolor on paper
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Carl-Henning Pedersen
The Happy World
1943
watercolor on paper
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Hans Hofmann
Untitled
1944
watercolor and gouache on paper
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Composition (Brightly Colored Shores)
1960
watercolor on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Elizabeth Peyton
Lunch (Nick)
2003
watercolor on paper
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Ani Hoover
Gray Shadow
2006
watercolor and ink on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Sam Gilliam
Untitled
2019
watercolor on paper
Museum of Modern Art, New York

A Crocodile

Hard by the lilied Nile I saw
A duskish river-dragon stretched along,
The brown harbinger of his limbs enamelled
With sanguine almandines and rainy pearl:
And on his back there lay a young one, sleeping,
No bigger than a mouse; with eyes like beads,
And a small fragment of its speckled egg
Remaining on its harmless, pulpy snout.
A thing to laugh at, as it gaped to catch
The baulking merry flies.  In the iron jaws
Of the great devil-beast, like a pale soul
Fluttering in rocky hell, lightsomely flew
A snowy trochilus, with roseate beak
Tearing the hairy leeches from its throat.

– Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1823)