TennesseeThe Art Students League The National Academy of Art Arline Mann is a watercolorist. Her watercolors contemplate light and shadow in personal spaces and on cherished objects. Building on the traditions of nineteenth-century Scandinavian painters such as Christen Kobke and Constantin Hansen, and on watercolorists such as Anders Zorn and John Stuart Ingle, her work seeks clarity, calm and joy, and projects a benevolent world. In Mann’s watercolors, light often stresses the beauty and comfort of a distinctive room or familiar objects such as glass, books, and soap – always with a sense of human presence. I paint to recreate for myself a very specific lifelong sense of exaltation, and to offer a viewer that same experience.