Rapid Gestures: Waterfalls in British Romantic Art May 27, 2010

'Rapid Gestures: Waterfalls in British Romantic Art' showcases the variety of materials, colors, lines, and brushstrokes artists used to portray these boisterous features of the natural world. Drawn from the Museum's rich collection of 18th- and 19th-century British watercolors and sketches, this exhibition offers the rare opportunity to compare works by J.M.W. Turner, including his 'Dazio Grande' (1843), with depictions by contemporaries such as Ruskin, John Constable, Edward Lear and John Robert Cozens.