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Every Sunday painter can describe the exquisite pleasure of transforming pigments and watercolors into the afternoon sun on a garden, or the view along the beach. These twelve masterworks of American watercolor painting achieve that uncanny alchemy and have become worldwide favorites. Watercolors 2009 is an inspiring and entrancing gift for any artist or art lover. * Featuring beloved works by John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Demuth, and Edward Hopper. * The National Gallery of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston have two of the nation's most admired collections of watercolors.