Cox’s scenic views
Before visiting “Sun, Wind, and Rain: The Art of David Cox” at the Yale Center for British Art on Tuesday, my experience with watercolor painting was limited to the blurry, translucent medium of my elementary school art classes. Luckily, unlike the soggy creations of my youth, David Cox’s paintings display an absolute mastery of watercolor technique.
“Sun, Wind, and Rain” — which runs from Oct. 16 to Jan. 4 — has the potential to be really boring. It is a purely retrospective exhibition of over 100 of David Cox’s pieces. It presents no ground-breaking thesis nor does it raise any...
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