Word: adirondack
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...Hopper, who is the subject of an upcoming show at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, abandoned the familiar natural beauty of Adirondack ponds and the glory of Venice but pursued the realist tradition with stark but tender scenes inspired by daily life. Demuth—with his trademark sparse but concentrated application of color—turned to a cubist-influenced realism, as is evident in his entrancing “Fruit and Sunflowers?...
...title poem, “The Life of a Hunter,” is inspired not by the film “The Night of the Hunter,” but by a kitschy Currier and Ives print of the same name, Robinson says. The poem contrasts the humorous Adirondack event the print depicts (a bear sitting on a hunter’s rifle) with the psychoanalysis of the hunter once he returns to the city. Robinson says that this poem, like many of hers, is about art. But on my own I could not have been confident in that...
...important medium in the U.S. In structure and intensity, his best watercolors yield nothing to his larger paintings. Homer had great powers of visual analysis; he could hardly look at a scene without breaking it down and resolving it as structure, and some of his paintings of the Adirondack woods, with their complicated shuttle of vertical trunks against a fluid background of deep autumnal shade, are demonstration pieces of sinewy design. He was able to isolate a motif in action, as though the watercolor were a pseudo photograph. This sometimes looks false, but it was exactly the kind of falsity...
...light-filled of all ways of painting, but its luminosity depends on the white of the paper shining through thin washes of pigment. One has to work from light to dark, not (as with oils) from dark to light. It is hospitable to accident (Homer's seas, skies and Adirondack hills are full of chance blots and free mergings of color) but disaster-prone as well. One slip, and the veil of atmosphere turns into a mud puddle, a garish swamp. The stuff favors broad effects; nothing proclaims the amateur more clearly than niggling and overcorrection. It can be violated...
...returned to America, and played professional minor league hockey for the Providence Bruins and the Adirondack Red Wings, among other teams, before retiring...