Wendy Artin, Grapes, 26x36 cm, watercolor, 2025
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New Watercolors on Paper by Wendy Artin
November 2025, Gurari Collections, Boston
Link to order catalogue with
suite of 7 poems by Benoît Gréan
Wendy Artin, Three Anemones, 17x35 cm each, watercolor, 2025
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Celebrating twenty-five years of showing with Gurari Collections, Rome-based artist Wendy Artin delivers fecundity and abundance with fifty exquisite new watercolors. Cornucopia is an offering of hand-picked, beautiful moments: curious blossoms and ripening fruit, carefully selected by Artin or offered to her by family and friends, surround centuries-old statues of nymphs, maenads, and gods. Also on display is a smattering of work from past exhibits, including figures and watercolors of walls.
Wendy Artin, After Goujon, Sea Nymph & Triton with Putti and fanciful Fish, 55x138 cm, watercolor, 2025
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Pansies with velvety leaves and effusive petals emerge spontaneously from the field of white paper, turning this way and that: “What happens to the beautiful little faces when they are looking sideways and in the shadow, or when they have leaves surrounding them and their small faces are peeking out? Looking at pansies can become a whole world... The word pansy comes from the French word pensée: if you give someone a pansy, it means you are thinking of them,” Artin says.
Wendy Artin, Purple Pansies, 26x36 cm, watercolor on paper, 2025
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Artin’s materials pool and spread across the page: “each watercolor is an adventure because I do not know what is going to happen when I put paint down, what I am going to try to keep, what I am going to try to leave,” she reflects. The fleeting moment is captured in the puddles of water, which, when left in the exact right position, for exactly the right amount of time, dry into a crisp curl of stone hair, the mottling skin of a pear, the little tendril on the poppy’s stem.
Wendy Artin, One Beautiful Pear, 20x26 cm, watercolor, 2025
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Goujon’s frolicking, stylized nymphs, surrounded by putti and strange Renaissance dolphins, emerge, ephemeral, from Artin’s watery palate. With abstract washes that turn to precise detail, her paintings imbue her stone muses with life and movement.
Wendy Artin, After Goujon, long-legged Nymph, 14x24 cm, watercolor, 2025
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Benoît Gréan, composer of the seven-poem suite which accompanies the show catalogue, describes Artin's work: “the miracle of the watercolorist’s gesture, who, throwing water and pigment on paper, births a fruit, a flower, a nude, a landscape.”
Wendy Artin, Green Apple Branch, 11x20 cm, watercolor, 2025
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Artist Acclaim and Awards
Wendy Artin was recently honored with the 2023 Arthur Ross Award for Excellence in the Classical Tradition by the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA). She studied at the Museum School in Boston and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
The show of 50 watercolor paintings will be available at the Gurari Collections and online.
Exhibit: November 7th, 2025 to January 18th, 2026.
Gurari Collections, 460B Harrison Avenue, Boston MA 02118, +1 (617) 367-9800 gurari.com
Contact: Russ Gerard guraricollections@gmail.com
Wendy Artin, watercolors for Cornucopia XXV, 2025