On a recent trip to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA, I was fortunate to be able to view: Winslow Homer: in Watercolor, amongst the crowded galleries. Homer's watercolors, on exhibit, had not been seen for over half a century, thus, marking the importance of this occasion.
However, before heading out for the day, it was revealed that Emily Sargent(1857 - 1936) had watercolors on exhibit in a gallery upstairs. Emily is the sister to John Singer Sargent, the well-known American portraitist. Neither John nor Emily married. However, they both painted extensively in watercolors, often on excursions with others, depending on where they were in the world.
In Emily's watercolor above, one can sense the shared subject matter between brother and sister and likely similar palette.
In 1998, 440 of her watercolors were discovered in a trunk in a family residence. Many of these watercolors were soon after donated to some of the greatest museums in the world(ie. Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Tate, The National Gallery of Art & The Metropolitan Museum of Arts amongst others). Credit: Wikipedia.
During her lifetime, her watercolors were only once known to have been exhibited.
