Word: colors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greeted at the New Fogg Museum with an exhibition of oil paintings, pastels and water-colors which present to the public an opportunity to study and admire the work of Martin Mower '01. Color that is striking and beautiful plus tonal qualities that are skilfully devised are rendered with a delicacy of treatment...
...those who see a good deal of the paintings of artists today, there is a relief in Mower's work from the harsh informality and ill-representation of color so evident in the studios, where we can often find heaps of large and small panels, some very interesting, but which to a large extent are loosely painted and "up in the air." In "Sanks Road, Maushon" we see a daring attempt with red which is very attractive but the cool blue of the water color in the sky and the yellow toned trees mingle triumphantly in the spectator...
...Color is Experimental...
...would be an error and inconsistent to neglect that part of Mower's artistic sense which is in nature, experimental. His color often may be labelled under this term. It is with significance that one reminds himself of the important place the experimental approach took in the lives of Manet, Monet, Cezanne and still more recently in Bellows in the "Archery Party" there is a experimental study with the palette and stype of Gainsborough with due success. The figures in this scene are skillfully painted with the use of the palette knife in order to give to them their characteristic...
Desiring to obtain a new design for a Championship Meet poster, the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America has offered three prizes for the best poster design in color depicting a track or field athlete in action...