In Professor Nancy Rose Marshall?s seminar on Victorian art last spring, the homework assignment was truly hands-on: Put together a show of splendid British watercolors for the Chazen Museum of Art. But first, discover just how difficult watercolor painting can be.
“Our attempts to do watercolor really gave us insights into the skills these artists had,” said Caitlin Silberman, one of Marshall?s students who took part in a watercolor-painting lesson from an artist as part of the course.