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"The greatest genius that ever touched landscape": John Robert Cozens and English watercolor.(Cover story)
On New Year's Day 1798 the painter John Robert Cozens was buried in London, aged just forty-five. During his brief lifetime Cozens laid the foundation for the great experiments in landscape painting that followed and, even more remarkably, did so by working almost exclusively in watercolor. No less an artist than John Constable (1776-1837) hailed him as "the greatest genius that ever touched landscape," (1) and the three most significant landscape painters who emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century--Constable, Thomas Girtin, and Joseph Mallord William Turner--were all indebted to Cozens. Yet while their names are revered today, Cozens's remains little known and ...
- The sport of collecting Paul Mellon & British Art: Brian Allen explains how...
- Magazine article from: Apollo Allen, Brian April 1, 2007 700+ words
...collection of British art, Paul Mellon remarked...observe that 'British art was neglected...munificence of Mr Paul Mellon, it is marching...Yale Center for British Art first opened...named after Paul Mellon: there is just...
- Modesty & munificence: the legacy of Paul Mellon: this special issue celebrates...
- Magazine article from: Apollo Meyers, Amy April 1, 2007 700+ words
...Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art; the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London; the Fitzwilliam Museum...In the 1960s, Mellon founded the Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art, in London, through various family...
- Former Director Returns to Yale Center for British Art To Give Paul Mellon...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire April 2, 2009 700+ words
...Yale Center for British Art To Give Paul Mellon Lecture(C)1994...officer of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. In 1995, he...in London, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, awards grants...
- Paul Mellon's lesson for Britain: the Yale Center for British Art's support for...
- Magazine article from: Apollo Hall, Michael April 1, 2007 700+ words
...the Yale Center for British Art, the subject of this...persuasively argues, Paul Mellon's passionate collecting of British art was a symbolic reconciliation...organisation in London, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, reminds the UK of...
- Self-Portrait by George Stubbs: The Yale Center for British Art continues to...
- Magazine article from: Apollo Albinson, Cassandra April 1, 2007 700+ words
...late 1770s and 1780s. The Yale Center for British Art, in honour of the centennial of Paul Mellon's birth, has recently acquired the earliest...Kingdom. Yet it was only with the arrival of Paul Mellon's posthumous bequest in 2001 that it...
- YALE UNIVERSITY: Yale pays tribute to Paul Mellon, citing lasting benefits of...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire February 3, 1999 700+ words
...public appreciation of British art and culture. Paul Mellon also created and endowed the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London. It is an...philanthropic. Just as Paul Mellon had delighted in British art, so he wanted ...
- YALE PAYS TRIBUTE TO MELLON BEQUEST.(Paul Mellon)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: WWD Feitelberg, Rosemary January 26, 2001 700+ words
...Andrew Mellon, Paul Mellon made philanthropy...Yale Center for British Art, Virginia Museum...91-year life, Paul Mellon compiled the world...largest collection of British art after that of the...Yale Center for British Art is intended to...was one to which ...
- Patron Saint.(art patron Paul Mellon)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Town & Country HERRERA, PHILIP April 1, 1999 700+ words
When Paul Mellon died in early February...and the Center for British Art at Yale University...humanistic in outlook, Paul Mellon had a wry sense...great collection of British art, then gave it to...the quantity of Paul Mellon's varied contributions...
