Word: dabbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Maurice Sterne has reached the highest point to which intelligence and technique, without genius, can bring a painter. His color is excellent, his drawing impeccable, he studiously avoids the academic. But Maurice Sterne is never quite satisfied with his work. He constantly pesters his dealers to let him dab at his old canvases again. In the introduction to last week's catalog he wrote...
...President-elect's arrival at Warm Springs climaxed an arduous and eventful week. In Manhattan he had watched Socialite Artist Natalie Van Vleck, who went to work in a chauffeured Rolls-Royce, dab the finishing touches to his portrait. By going 16 hours at a stretch, he had kept as many appointments as 50 per day. He had found time to address retiring President Abbott Lawrence Lowell and "the Harvard family" at the University's club. He had endorsed the back-to- the-farm movement and Secretary of State Stimson's reiterated Far Eastern policy of nonrecognition...
...artists when they first came . . . replied, 'Wall, to tell the truth we thought they was a bunch of wild Indians and maybe some of them still is. In those days they'd take a canvas out into the field and begin painting on it. First, they'd put a dab of paint of one color and take about ten steps back to see how it looked . . . and by the time that picture was finished what with all the walking back and forth to look at it ?there wasn't nothing left of the vegetable garden the artist was tramping...