{"product_id":"spectacular-freedom-andrew-wyeth-and-the-modern-american-watercolor","title":"Spectacular Freedom : Andrew Wyeth and the Modern American Watercolor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAndrew Wyeth’s expressive watercolor practice and his unique artistic vision\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBeginning in the 1930s, Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009) built a monumental reputation for his watercolors—described by one critic at the time as having a “spectacular freedom.” In the medium, Wyeth depicted the people and places that surrounded him in rural Pennsylvania and Maine in expressive and evocative compositions. Though he later became known for his tempera paintings, he never ceased to work in watercolor, using the medium for both preliminary and finished works throughout his storied career. Exploring Wyeth’s use of watercolors, this richly illustrated volume features rarely seen works from the artist’s estate and considers the role of the medium within Wyeth’s larger oeuvre.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt illuminates new aspects of the artist’s formative period by situating Wyeth’s early experiments in the context of an explosion of interest in watercolor and the promotion of the medium as distinctively American, and it includes scholarly essays that reveal how Wyeth—an artist who embraced precise realism at a time when many of his peers favored abstraction—used watercolor to engage with the question of what it means to be both modern and American. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDistributed for the Cleveland Museum of Art\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExhibition Schedule: The Cleveland Museum of Art (September 20, 2026–January 18, 2027) De Young, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (February 13–July 18, 2027)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eDetails\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003e Britany Salsbury, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003ecurator of prints and drawings at the Cleveland Museum of Art.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eHardcover:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003e 128 pages pages | 120 colour and black and white illustrations\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eDate published:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003e September 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003e English\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e9780300292732\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eProduct Dimensions:  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003e30.5 x 24.1 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Cleveland Museum of Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57301927625082,"sku":"9780300292732","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0915\/8302\/files\/spectacular-freedom-andrew-wyeth-and-the-modern-american-watercolor-9780300292732-1259849571.avif?v=1790251632","url":"https:\/\/www.museumbookstore.com\/products\/spectacular-freedom-andrew-wyeth-and-the-modern-american-watercolor","provider":"Museum Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}