Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...centuries, some of the best painting in Europe was done in watercolor. The brilliant achievements of English art in particular, from Rowlandson to Turner, were largely based on the freedom, speed and unique sparkle of the transparent wash. One forgets what the medium could do. Last week the Pierpont Morgan Library produced a salutary reminder, in the form of a show called "English Drawings and Watercolors, 1550-1850." The 150 items are drawn from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, and they are nearly all of staggering quality...
...watercolor has two roots. One is in pen-and-wash drawing, the other in the more static and ceremonious art of miniature painting. The first item in the Morgan catalogue is a painting of an imaginary noble savage, A Young Daughter of the Picts, by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues. Le Moyne, a French artist who worked in England in the 16th century, voyaged to Florida in the early 1560s. There he saw Indians-and concluded that there had to be a likeness between them and the lost tribes of primitive Britain. Hence the delicate Amazon, who might have stepped...
...Morgan Maxfield--a student in the program and chairman of the class association that made the trip--said the trip was undertaken to "view the precision with which NASA makes decisions...
Today Coach Peria Hewes's squad hopes to bounce back with a strong performance against Princeton. Meg Morgan, playing at number one, Joy Skon and Jill Robertson, at two and three, respectively, will lead the netters against an undermanned Tiger squad...
...Morgan, playing number one, downed her opponent, 6-3, 6-4, in the closest contest of the afternoon. The three other singles players won easily, but in doubles the 'Cliffies dropped two out of three matches...