Watercolor Landscape Masters

Glenn Hirsch, Instructor

John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent

Georgia O’keeffe

Georgia O’keeffe

Georgia O’keeffe

Gustav Moreau

Stephen Scott Young

Anders Zorn

Edmund Dulac

Arthur Rackham

Gustav Dore

Frederick Childe Hassam

Frederick Childe Hassam

Frederick Childe Hassam

Robert Bechtle(1932- ) Bechtle has lived all his life in the Bay Area; and his art is centered on scenes from everyday life. In the late 1960s, he became one of the first photorealists –painting based on photographs and to create a painting that appears to be itself a photograph.

Robert Bechtle

Raoul Dufy(1877 – 1953)

French Fauvist painter who developed a colorful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs of ceramics and textiles, as well as decorative schemes for public buildings.

Dufy's cheerful oils and watercolors depict events of the time period, including yachting scenes, sparkling views of the French Riviera, chic parties, and musical events.

Dufy completed one of the largest paintings ever contemplated, a huge and immensely popular ode to electricity, the fresco La Fée Electricité for the 1937 Exposition Internationale in Paris. It is 32 feet high by 204 feet long.

Raoul Dufy

Raoul Dufy

Dufy's mural, La Fee Electricite, for the Paris International Exposition of 1937.

The painting, 200 feet long and 33 feet high.