Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 1775–1851), Devonport and Dockyard, Devonshire, c. 1825–29. Watercolor and gouache, with scratch work, on cream wove paper, 29.8 x 44 cm. Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Gift of Charles Fairfax Murray in honor of W. J. Stillman, 1903.49. Photo: Photographic Services © President and Fellows of Harvard College

CAMBRIDGE, MA.- The Harvard University Art Museums present The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, an exhibition of over 50 watercolors and drawings by the American followers of John Ruskin, including nearly a dozen rarely seen works by Ruskin himself. The exhibition is on view from April 7 through July 8, 2007 at the Fogg Art Museum. Ruskin, the 19th-century British writer and watercolorist, never came to the United States, but had great influence on a group of artists who considered themselves American Pre-Raphaelites. These artists specialized in small landscapes and floral studies and were active in New York during the 1860s. While earlier scholars surmised that the movement died out by 1870, this exhibition examines a second flowering of the Ruskinian style in the U.S. followed Ruskin’s practice of documenting the architectural monuments of Venice and Florence, eventually expanding that practice to Egypt and Japan. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=19825

John Ruskin (British, 1819–1900), Fragment of the Alps, c. 1854–56. Watercolor and gouache over graphite on cream wove paper, 33.5 x 49.3 cm. Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Gift of Samuel Sachs, 1919.506. Photo: Photographic Services © President and Fellows of Harvard College