Stories Stranger than Fiction, Pictures Larger than Life

Come to the Getty Center, Museum Lecture Hall, for Stories Stranger than Fiction, Pictures Larger than Life. Julian Brooks, associate curator of Drawings, the J. Paul Getty Museum, investigates some of the stories and characters behind British watercolor in the 1800s. Brooks focuses on artists who pushed the boundaries of watercolor and drawing, including J. M. W. Turner, Thomas Girtin, Edward Lear, D. G. Rossetti, and Aubrey Beardsley. Complements the exhibition Luminous Paper" British Watercolors and Drawings.