Across geographies and time, water has played a critical part in shaping landscape, driving economic fortune, and inspiring technological and artistic innovation.
This February, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) will open Watershed: Transforming the Landscape in Early Modern Dutch Art, an exhibition that reflects on the importance of water in the development of the new Dutch Republic—present-day Netherlands—leading up to and following its liberation from Spain in the 17th century. Through approximately 40 paintings and works on paper by such acclaimed artists as Frans Hals, Balthasar van der Ast, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Jacob van Ruisdael, among many others, the exhibition highlights the pivotal role of water in the political, social, economic, and ecological evolution of the emergent country.
Watershed will be on view at the BMA from February 9-July 27, 2025, and is part of the museum’s ongoing Turn Again to the Earth initiative that explores environmental and sustainability issues.
More information: https://artbma.org
