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Born in Coytesville, N.J., Price grew up near the late, famed water-colorist and graphic artist "Pop" Hart, and attributes his earliest and soundest inspiration to that master of the homely subject. Price has never been to art school. For his cartooning guidance he uses models, a big collection of his own candid sketches - and memory. He prefers the last...
...only in small part attributable to his method, to the science of optics or of anything else. He was a "divisionist," to be sure, but he was first & foremost a great painter-a master of complex composition (the receding planes in La Grande Jatte are extraordinary) and an inspired colorist. He produced only seven large, major canvases, but his hundreds of drawings and oil sketches are rarities in themselves, and his calm vacation seascapes painted at Honfleur and Grandcamp are among the finest chapters in the painted literature of the ocean...
Impresario Bruce's watercolor campaign publicizes one of the arts most congenial to U.S. artists. Because his splashes of color on paper dry quickly and cannot be worked over, a water-colorist has to make his plans beforehand and embody them with lightning speed and absolute sureness of hand. Unlike oil painting where brush strokes may be laid on canvas, removed, changed with slow, well-planned deliberation, water-coloring is as fast and spontaneous as a tennis game...
...Central Park Zoo. Designer Walter Smith, who works for both I. Miller (shoes) and Jaeckel (furs), got Cellophane Easter bunnies into the windows of both. At Bergdorf-Goodman's, Designers Robert Riley and Mab Wilson used as backgrounds crowd scenes painted by famed Lithographer and Water Colorist Adolf Dehn. Saks-Fifth Avenue's Sidney Ring, with the help of a free-lance designer named Helen Watkins, found a new use for spaghetti. Designers Ring and Watkins got a huge assortment of spaghetti, far-falle, gnocchetti, scungilli and other uncooked Italian pasta, dyed it all colors of the rainbow...
...turning out one water color a day. His first tries were not too good; later he tore up two or three hundred of them. But he kept on, upped his output to two and even three a day, gave up lithographs altogether. Last year, on a Guggenheim Fellowship, Water-Colorist Dehn got himself a car and ranged Mexico and the Southwest, turning out water colors like hot cakes...