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Masters of Color and Light: Homer, Sargent, and the American Watercolor Movement celebrates the one hundred seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Museum’s collections by highlighting an area in which the Brooklyn Museum of Art was an early pioneer. Ferber and Barbara Dayer Gallati will accompany the exhibition. A fully illustrated catalogue written BMA curators Linda S.
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The long-planned watercolor exhibition will include 150 seldom-seen masterpieces created between the late eighteenth and the mid-twentieth century, all drawn from the Museum’s exceptional holdings of American watercolors. That exhibition, drawn from five Russian museums, will open on March 20, 1998, and will run through July 5, 1998.
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The change has been made to accommodate a late addition to the spring calendar, Jewels of the Romanovs: Treasures of the Russian Imperial Court, which will open at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, where it will be the final United States venue before the 200 objects, including the Russian crown jewels, return to Moscow. Masters of Color and Light: Homer, Sargent, and the American Watercolor Movement has been postponed and is now scheduled to be on view May 8 through August 23, 1998.