Word: mariners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hurricane has just hit," wrote John Marin after a big blow in 1944. "The Seas are Glorious-Magnificent-Tremendous-God be praised that I have yet the vision to see these things." Watercolorist Marin, then almost 74, was spending his summer as usual on the Maine coast. Last week the wry, spry old master proudly showed the world that his vision is still as sharp as ever...
...seas and cockleshell boats, apple blossoms, circuses. As usual, he had worked with a light brush: a few lines for a fishing boat, a scattering of calligraphic squiggles to capture the rolling anger of The Written Sea. And no matter how fluid the motion, each picture had the "balance" Marin strives for. "Think of the wonderful balance of squirrels," he says. "I like my pictures to have that kind of balance...
Manhattanites flocked to the show, eager to pay their respects and up to $6,000 for a sample of the old man's magic. John Marin himself bobbed up for an hour to see how his pictures looked on the gallery wall, then hustled back to his paintboxes. At 82, he still tramps the countryside on good days, looking, studying, sketching. People sometimes ask him how he keeps his eye so clear and .fresh. "I can't tell," he says. "It's mostly instinct...
...Dallas, a group calling themselves Young Collections borrowed a gallery in the city's Museum of Fine Arts, opened it to a list of 300 Dallasites who looked like potential customers. On view were 56 paintings by such contemporary artists as Hazel Janicki, John Marin, Ben Shahn. Within an hour of the opening, eight paintings were sold. Texas' ten-gallon prices: from $50 for Woman Setting Table by Jenne Magafan to $500 for Lyonel Feininger's Village in Thuringia...
Election Day brought a landslide in Puerto Rico too. Governor Luis Munoz Marin, running for reelection, swept every town in the island, piled up a total of 428,171 votes. He got 65% of the total vote, compared to 61.8% in 1948. His Popular Party won 70 of 96 seats in the legislature-all it could get under the proportional-representation system in the new Commonwealth constitution...