Demographics - The Frederic Whitaker and Eileen Monaghan

Demographics
THE FREDERIC WHITAKER AND EILEEN MONAGHAN WHITAKER FOUNDATION
To Google “watercolor” online brings up more than nine
million entries. Today in the United States there are more
than 100 official regional and national watercolor
associations and organizations and perhaps hundreds of
smaller groups of watercolor lovers who gather to paint
and to enjoy this time-honored tradition. The medium
now has at least two national magazines and a multitude
of books dedicated to its discipline. Watercolor is a genre
that expands with time and is timeless in its appeal.
The work of Frederic Whitaker and Eileen Monaghan
Whitaker carries the weight of more than sixty years
of history encompassing both the traditions of watercolor
and the signs of the times in which they lived. And it
is new to audiences. Their work is traditional, their
relationship unique, and their contribution extensive.
All of which create an appeal that is personal as well
as artistic.
In his essay about Frederic Whitaker and Eileen
Monaghan Whitaker, Donelson Hoopes writes: In the
19th century, writers frequently referred to watercolor
as “the American medium,” largely because of the sheer
number of artists who embraced the medium and the
important place it had assumed in exhibitions and among
an avid public. While art in our time has shifted into a
variety of expressive means which would have been
unimaginable then, watercolor yet claims the allegiance
of many important American artists working today.
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