Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon collection at the Yale Center for British Art /

This splendid addition to the Yale Center for British Art publications on the Paul Mellon Collection is an addition to Scott Wilcox's British Watercolors: Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (CH, Sep'85) and his Victorian Landscape Watercolors, with Christopher Newall (1992). The exhibition traveled to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. The catalog complements The Spooner Collection of British Watercolors at the Courtauld Institute Gallery, by Michael Broughton et al. (CH, Jan'07, 44-2519). This catalog, marking the centennial of Paul Mellon's birth, is illustrated with 121 reproductions completely capturing the luminosity of the watercolor medium. Textual material includes a foreword by the directors of the Yale Center for British Art and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, with an essay by Scott Wilcox (curator, prints and drawings, Yale Center for British Art) and catalog entries by Hargraves. Handsomely designed, this title offers a superb overview of the Yale Center's collection, the largest and most representative one of British art outside the UK. Bibliographic footnotes for each artist; list of general works on the history of British watercolors; thorough index; list of photo credits. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels. R. Lockard University of Pittsburgh