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...palette went out the window ("Last year I painted almost nothing but flowers," he wrote in 1887, "so I could get used to colors other than gray.") He experimented with Impressionist brushstrokes and pointillist "stippling" - one superb gallery here pairs off Monet's Boats on the Beach, Etretat with Van Gogh's dappled Woodland Path, and the nearly identical Signac and Van Gogh views of the Boulevard de Clichy. Toulouse-Lautrec's Young Woman at a Table, Poudre de Riz, an unusual pointillist portrait in soft pinks and grays that once belonged to Theo van Gogh, makes a perfect foil...
...Rosenberg collection of Braques was also outstanding; it included a series of peaceful still lifes and such stimulating arrangements as Pink Tablecloth and Blue and Red Guitar. Matisse was represented by eight works, notably a riotously colored Odalisque with Flowers and a small, masterfully composed Open Window at Etretat. There were also excellent pictures by other artists in whose work Rosenberg has dealt: Edgar Degas, Georges Seurat and Pierre Auguste Renoir, whose appetizing La Source-an amply bosomed nude sitting beside a running fountain-showed the luscious tints and easy symbolism that make Renoir popular even with beginners...
...Ballou of Providence, Rhode Island, John B. Hickam of Galveston, Texas, Lemuel Bowden, Jr. of Norfolk, Virginia, John H. Gilbert of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Frank A. Welty, Jr. of Dubois, Wyoming, John T. Repun of Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, Lorne Rickert of Kitchener, Ontarie, Canada, Justin J. Thackara of Etretat, France...
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