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The year of 1850 may be considered the beginning of a new epoch in America, with respect to thedevelopment of watercolor painting. In December of that year, a group of thirty artists gathered in the studioof John Falconer in New York City and drafted both a constitution and by-laws, establishing “The Society forthe Promotion of Painting of Water Color”. In addition to securing an exhibition space in the Library Societybuilding in lower Manhattan, the society founded a small school for the instruction of watercolor painting.Periodic exhibitions of the members’ paintings also included works by noted English artists of the day,borrowed from embryonic private collections in the city. The society’s activities also included organizedsketching excursions along the Hudson River. Its major public exposure came in 1853, when the societypresented works by its members in the “Industry of All Nations” section of the Crystal Palace Exposition inNew York City.
76. The passage mainly concerns
(A) the most influential watercolor painters in the 1800s.
(B) efforts to organize watercolor painters in New York City during the 1800s.
(C) periodic exhibitions of watercolor paintings held in New York in the 1800s.
(D) a specific school of watercolor paintings was established in lower Manhattan during the 1800s.

參考答案

答案：B
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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