‘BRUSHED WITH LIGHT’ ON VIEW AT FRIST CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS

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NASHVILLE, TENN. — The Frist Center for the Visual Arts presents “Brushed with Light: Masters of American Watercolor from the Brooklyn Museum,” on view through July 22 in the Upper–Level Galleries.

This chronological survey of American watercolor landscapes begins with precisely painted scenes from late Eighteenth Century New England and concludes with urban images from the mid-Twentieth Century.

The majority of the works, however, were created by many of America’s foremost artists of the late Nineteenth Century, including William Trost Richards, John Singer Sargent, John LaFarge, Winslow Homer and Thomas Moran.

Also included in the exhibition are early Twentieth Century paintings by John Marin, who is acknowledged as the bridge that connected the naturalist landscape visions of earlier artists with modernist trends in American art, represented in this exhibition by Marguerite Zorach, Milton Avery, Arthur Dove, Edward Hopper and regionalist Thomas Hart Benton.

The exhibition has been organized by the Brooklyn Museum.

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts is at 919 Broadway. For information, 615-244-3340 or www.fristcenter.org.