The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)
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Watercolor Artists
3,636 works at MoMA
8 nationalities
Leading Artists in Watercolor
- 582 Ellsworth Kelly American
- 102 Unidentified Artists
- 83 Franz Erhard Walther German
- 81 Abraham Walkowitz American
- 70 Diego Rivera Mexican
- 60 Léopold Survage French
- 59 Marc Chagall French
- 58 Lauretta Vinciarelli Italian
- 48 Jules Pascin American
- 45 Hilma af Klint Swedish
National Distribution
Classification Sub-types
| Classification | Works | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Drawing | 2254 | 62% |
| Notebook | 588 | 16.2% |
| 285 | 7.8% | |
| Illustrated Book | 254 | 7% |
| Architecture | 168 | 4.6% |
| Photograph | 32 | 0.9% |
| Design | 15 | 0.4% |
| Mies van der Rohe Archive | 11 | 0.3% |
Department Distribution
- Drawings and Prints (MET) — 4727
- Drawings & Prints (MOMA) — 3387
- The American Wing (MET) — 885
- Islamic Art (MET) — 542
- Architecture & Design (MOMA) — 204
- Asian Art (MET) — 162
- Robert Lehman Collection (MET) — 54
- Photography (MOMA) — 32
- Modern and Contemporary Art (MET) — 23
- European Paintings (MET) — 11
Production by Decade
64
0s
1
1850s
32
1860s
8
1880s
20
1890s
63
1900s
416
1910s
307
1920s
242
1930s
271
1940s
694
1950s
351
1960s
236
1970s
314
1980s
184
1990s
411
2000s
15
2010s
7
2020s
Physical Scale Distribution
| Scale bracket | Works | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Small (< 30 cm) | 1437 | 41.3% |
| Medium (30–100 cm) | 1901 | 54.7% |
| Large (1–3 m) | 131 | 3.8% |
| Monumental (> 3 m) | 8 | 0.2% |
Artist Birth Cohorts
1
1800–1824
6
1825–1849
38
1850–1874
159
1875–1899
127
1900–1924
171
1925–1949
153
1950–1974
20
1975–1999
Gender of Artists Working in Watercolor
- Male — 537
- Female — 140
Met Cultural Context
| Culture | Country | Met Records |
|---|---|---|
| American | 825 | |
| Iran | 284 | |
| India | 122 | |
| India (Gujarat) | 70 | |
| present-day Afghanistan | 61 | |
| American | United States | 22 |
| present-day Uzbekistan | 15 | |
| Japan | 13 | |
| British | 12 | |
| Turkey | 11 |
On View Now
24 Watercolor works currently installed in Met galleries
Notable Highlights
"Preparing Medicine from Honey", from a Dispersed Manuscript of an Arabic Translation of De Materia Medica of Dioscorides
'Abdullah ibn al-Fadl · dated A.H. 621 / 1224 CE
Iraq
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
Ahmad ibn al-Suhrawardi al-Bakri|Muhammad ibn Aibak ibn 'Abdallah · dated A.H. 707/ 1307–8 CE
Iraq
"The Elephant Clock", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari
Badi' al-Zaman ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari|Farrukh ibn `Abd al-Latif · dated A.H. 715/1315 CE
probably Syria or Iraq
"The Funeral of Isfandiyar," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · 1330s
Iran
Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi
Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi · dated A.H. 741 / 1340–41 CE
Iran
"The Eavesdropper", Folio 47r from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Maulana Azhar|Nizami|Unknown · ca. 1430
present-day Afghanistan