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Also Known As watercolour painting • watercolor painting • watercolor

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Albrecht Dürer: The Monumental Turf
Reproduction of Thomas Moran's Tower Falls and Sulphur Mountain, Yellowstone
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Georges Rouault
French artist
William Blake
William Blake
British writer and artist
Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German artist
J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838
J.M.W. Turner
English painter
Thomas Eakins, detail of a self-portrait, oil on canvas, 1902; in the National Academy of Design, New York.
Thomas Eakins
American painter
Wassily Kandinsky: Painting with Green Center
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian-born artist
Self-portrait by John Constable
John Constable
British artist
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, photograph by Lewis Carroll, 1863
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English artist
Winslow Homer: Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)
Winslow Homer
American artist
Henry Darger
American artist and writer
Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler
German artist
John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent
American painter
Carol Rama
Italian artist
Andrew Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth
American artist
Poet and painter Edward Lear
Edward Lear
English painter and writer
Nolde, Emil: Cows in the Lowland
Emil Nolde
German artist
Pancho Fierro
Peruvian artist
Girtin, Thomas: The Faubourg and the Porte Saint-Denis
Thomas Girtin
British artist
Sherrie Levine
American artist
John Marin
American artist