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Washington Water Color
Association
 A Regional Organization Based In The Greater Washington, DC Area.
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Welcome to the Washington Water Color Associations Web Site
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Last Update 6 - 09
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The Washington Water Color Club was
organized in 1896 by Marietta Andrews,
a teacher at the Corcoran School of Art
and wife of it's first director,
Eliphalet F. Andrews. It was renamed the
Washington Water Color Association.
Parker Mann was the first president
and the first exhibition was held at
the Cosmos Club in 1896. Later
exhibitions were held in the Hemicycle
and other rooms of the Corcoran
Museum and the National Museum
of the Smithsonian Institution, now
the Museum of Natural History.
Being one of the earliest professional
artist organizations in the city, early
exhibitions included artist from New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, France,
Germany, Holland, England and Australia
as well as Washington, D.C.
Many prominent artist of the day showed
their works at the WWCA shows, including
John Varley, Luigi Chialiva, William
Henry Holmes, Director of the National Gallery
of Art, Childe Hassam, Andrew Wyeth,
Henry Gasser, William Merrit
Chase and Lucien Whiting Powell.
Works exhibited at the WWCA’s shows
of the last three artists mentioned are in
the Corcoran Museum Collection today.
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"What a splendid thing watercolor is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it”
Vincent van Gogh 1853-1890
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Individual artworks are copyrighted by each respective artist.
Created 10-01-2004
This site was designed by Barbara E. Allinson. artstudiob@hotmail.com
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