Past Exhibition

The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors

The image shows a low angle view looking across a calm body of water towards a distant cityscape. The horizon is placed just below the middle of the composition, featuring a skyline with a prominent tall bell tower and architectural structures spread across the view. The painting's technique uses soft, fluid brushstrokes that blend seamlessly into one another. The color palette is composed of muted tones, with grays and blues predominating, while soft pastel hues of peach, pink, and orange highlight the buildings and sailboats along the waterline, creating a subtle contrast against the dusky sky.
Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, Venetian Capriccio with a Campanile, watercolor and gouache over graphite on gray wove paper, Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, 2009.70.50

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    West Building, Ground Floor, West Outer Tier Galleries
The image shows a low angle view looking across a calm body of water towards a distant cityscape. The horizon is placed just below the middle of the composition, featuring a skyline with a prominent tall bell tower and architectural structures spread across the view. The painting's technique uses soft, fluid brushstrokes that blend seamlessly into one another. The color palette is composed of muted tones, with grays and blues predominating, while soft pastel hues of peach, pink, and orange highlight the buildings and sailboats along the waterline, creating a subtle contrast against the dusky sky.
Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, Venetian Capriccio with a Campanile, watercolor and gouache over graphite on gray wove paper, Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, 2009.70.50

Overview: The Gallery is one of the major beneficiaries of donations from the collection of Joseph F. McCrindle (1923–2008), having received over 300 old master and modern drawings as well as 13 paintings. This exhibition celebrates McCrindle's legacy with the finest of the works on paper: 71 drawings by a broad range of artists spanning five centuries, including a notable group of watercolors by John Singer Sargent.

Organization: Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Sponsor: The exhibition and catalogue are made possible through the generous support of the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation.

Attendance: 66,659

Catalog: The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors, edited by Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2012.

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