Artist
W. Alister Macdonald
W. Alister Macdonald is an Art Nouveau artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This Scottish painter lived in Venice long enough to stop looking like a tourist. He carried a paintbox up the narrow stairs of the Palazzo Pesaro just to record the way afternoon light pooled on the marble floors. Sound boring? In watercolor it turns into a quiet riot of ochers and umbers. If you’ve ever squinted at a building and lost track of the hours, hunt down his 1913 sheet of the Palazzo Pesaro—it’s the closest thing to a time-lapse in paint.
Works by W. Alister Macdonald
Collections represented
Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.