Word: marination
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...making a comparative judgment, it is possible that a person could be fooled into believing that Homer, the old American stand-by, was equal to his popular reputation. There are a few works by other painters in this collection of watercolors, however, and it is upon the shoulders of Marin and Hopper, contemporary artists, that the burden rests of showing those who wish to see, that Winslow Homer is a highly over-rated painter...
...Zapata and Pancho Villa swept the land with fantasy. The wave receded; Mexico slept again; Rivera went to Paris and for ten years labored at Cubism in Montparnasse. He found his true style on his return, in his great Mexican frescoes. First with a beautiful, pantherish model named Guadalupe Marin and later with pretty Frida Kahlo, Rivera lived an active revolutionary life until 1929, when the Communist Party expelled...
...Artist Arnold Blanch, winner of third prize ($500), seemed a stiff bit of social consciousness greatly damaged by the fumbling inclusion of Washington, D.C. In the U.S. section of 102 paintings, critics found as great or greater pleasure in Bernard Karfiol's big, soft Summer; John Marin's Sea with-Red Sky, a small canvas with a whipped cream lather of white paint which at 60 feet carried a spacious sense of foaming ocean...
Juicy & Nocturnal. At the gallery of tall Bostonian Hudson D. Walker, watercolors by quiet Harry Glassgold pleased visitors with their dexterity and light-filled colors. In several of them 30-year-old Artist Glassgold got away with a few Marin tricks of shorthand with unusual impunity. Most critics accounted his work more lively if not more accomplished than the watercolors which Dealer Walker hung up this week by 28-year-old, waggish Stuyvesant Van Veen. Typical of his dry, ingenious work were half-a-dozen "nocturnes"' of New England small towns, among them Peterborough Backstreet...
...opened at the same time. Aside from a group of abstract studies that local critics defended somewhat uneasily, paintings at the Newport Art Association exhibit included the veteran Edward Hopper's oil Sun on Prospect Street, Charles Burchfield's water color Black Iron, the work of John Marin, Thomas Benton, Reginald Marsh, Henry Yarnum Poor, others as eminent...