Word: colors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nine paintings by the Dutch water color school of the nineteenth century and a small collection of Greek terra cotta figurines were acquisitions made during the year which deserve special attention. There were also nine terra cotta heads of the first or second century B. C., from Asia Minor, acquired by exchange with the Royal Museums of Brussels...
Following the prevailing system, each building is allotted a color for its locker application cards, and therefore two differently colored cards, appearing in the files under one student's name call for immediate investigation...
...play up his U. S. birth and training. Twenty-seven years ago Stieglitz found Marin an art student in Paris, earning a skimpy living by meticulously etching French cathedrals in the Whistler manner. Rebelling at this finicky scratchwork, Marin would rush out to the country, splash gobs of water color around with one of the biggest brushes he could find. Dealer Stieglitz did not think much of the etchings, but grew so excited about the water colors that he practically adopted John Marin there & then. Ever since, he has handled Marin's finances and all his pictures, never accepting...
Many people, including John Marin, have written a great deal in explanation of John Marin's art, It is simplest to call his work shorthand notes for pictures by a man with a fine sense of color, a riotous imagination and a hand disciplined by years of technical training. To many observers his blobs of pure color splashed loosely on big sheets of crinkly paper are more suggestive of the sea, sky, ships and mountains than all the careful paintings of the same subjects inside gilt frames in a dozen academies. Gallery-goers last week made much...
...England-born Robert Cranston, now 38, began photography while in the Navy during the War. After his discharge he took newspictures for Brooklyn papers until he got a job on the News in 1924. Since last August he has been doing experimental color photography for the News's Sunday supplement...