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Homer to Hopper, at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, looks at the golden age of American watercolor (1870-1930). Included are the works of Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Edward Hopper, John Marin, Charle Demuth and some lesser-known painters. (Tuesday-Friday...
...show. The seated and half-length figures, part human, part mannequin, in these large prints are lost in private, unidentifiable thoughts. They are mysterious, often disturbing and erotic images, rich in psychological overtones. To several of the partly nude female figures Dine has added genitals painted in watercolor so that they glow like jewels...
...asked to name his profession, Rowland Emett would probably answer "Fantasticator." No other term could remotely convey the diverse genius of the perky, pink-cheeked Englishman whose pixilations, in cartoon, watercolor and clanking 3-D reality, range from the celebrated Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Railway to the demented thingamabobs that made the 1968 movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang a minuscule classic. It is no wonder that he has been dubbed by admiring Americans the British Rube Goldberg. But that, with all due deference to the late Rube (who was a great admirer of Emett), is to compare Edward Lear...
Michael Taylor's watercolor-and-pastels are billed as a new direction in American Realism. But his people are posed, his color imposed. Above all, his perception hasn't gotten past Norman Rockwell's cute kids and rehashed sentiment...
John C. Terelak paints better in watercolor than in oil. Works like "Purina", the best of the show, are soft, but solid realism. His oil and acrylic works, unfortunately, combine a common color scheme and consciously imposed light to no great effect. Through the end of the week...