Frank Nelson Wilcox

A Buckeye Abroad: Frank Wilcox in Paris 1910 - 1926

Cleveland-born artist Frank Nelson Wilcox (1887-1964), was one of the great virtuousos in the history of American watercolor painting and was described as such in articles written during his lifetime. Shown for the first time in a museum setting, Wilcox produced this group of previously unknown watercolors when he traveled through Europe in the closing years of La Belle Époque, or the "beautiful era," conventionally dated from 1871 to the eve of World War I in 1914. During this time, Wilcox painted alongside Henri Matisse, William Zorach, Emile Bernard, and Paul Serusier, among others, and produced intimately-scaled, but larger than life atmospheric views of the various cities and countrysides in France through which he traveled during this golden moment in human history.