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...almost 20 years, art critics have persistently called John Marin the best living U.S. watercolorist. Last week Marin's first retrospective show since 1936 showed...
...exhibition, in Boston's Institute of Modern Art, included about a hundred water colors, oils, etchings from Marin's sizable output (he averages 30 or 40 water colors a year).* Most were balanced skeins of color which caught, as if in shorthand, the feel of Marin's Maine and Manhattan. The best of them, which had the lift and sparkle of a sunny day at sea, looked as if they had taken a couple of minutes to paint. "It is like golf," Marin once explained. "The fewer strokes I can take, the better the picture...
...revealing foreword to the show's catalogue, Critic MacKinley Helm described how he had watched Marin turn a sunset into a painting. Wrote Helm: "With his right hand [Marin] roughed in with black crayon the three elements of the picture-sky, headland and bay; and laid on the color with furious strokes of a half-inch brush in his left hand. His hands fought each other over the paper. . . . 'See that blue spot out there?' Marin said, dabbing impatiently. . . . 'You can't put it on paper-so you just put down a color that...
Divorced. Luis ("El Vate") Muñoz Marin, 48, broody-eyed President of Puerto Rico's Senate, founder and guiding spirit of the Popular Democratic Party, political hero of the poverty-stricken jibaros (hill people); by Muna Lee, 51, Mississippi-born poetess after 27 years of marriage, two children; in San Juan...
...enterprising local representation. The Institute of Modern Art, a non-profit organization, with galleries on Newbury Street, maintains no permanent collection but has frequent showings of distinguished contemporary painting. It is, at present, holding its Tenth Anniversary Retrospective Exhibition, including major works by Picasso, Matisse, Roualt, Henri Rousseau, Klee, Marin, and Siqueiros. Boris Mirski's Gallery, also on Newbury Street, shows mainly Mexican and Boston moderns. The current show comprises paintings by pupils and admirers of Karl Zerbe, the celebrated and versatile Boston romantic. Mirski's also sells original paintings and prints by local artists, and maintains a large collection...