Word: umber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resemble vegetation, burnt sienna blotches to blend with Virginia clay soil. Solid color drapes they painted with a mixture of blue, yellow and red oil paints, producing a somewhat greener green than the usual olive drab of U. S. Army trucks. For solid brown drapes they mixed flat burnt umber and yellow ochre coldwater paints, made drapes look like big chocolate bars...
...colored and dramatic canvases of small Southern towns and cotton country, is now at work on a picture called Judgment Day which will contain no less than 500 figures. An obviously gifted draughtsman, McCrady gets his luminous effects by "under-painting," working in transparent color glazes on a warm, umber ground. Tender, fully imagined, though not profound, his Negro paintings appear as authentically melodious as the Kansas paintings of John Steuart Curry are authentically robust...