Featuring over 70 works of art in a variety of media, "Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century British Landscapes and Beyond" explores how the genre of landscape evolved during an era of immense transformation in Britain. The diverse collection of watercolors, drawings, prints, and oil sketches traces the shift from topographical and picturesque depictions of the natural world to intensely personal ones that align with Romantic poetry of the period.

Curated by Dena M. Woodall, curator of prints and drawings at the MFAH, the exhibition spotlights the Stuart Collection, built over the past decade in collaboration with Houstonian Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer. The collection includes standout works by such notable artists as Richard Wilson, Thomas Gainsborough, John Robert Cozens, John Constable, and J.M.W. Turner, whose innovative approaches to watercolor raised its status as an art form and heralded a golden age for the medium.

The exhibition will remain on display through July 6.