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That moment in 1910 when Vasily Kandinsky laid down his brush upon finishing a certain watercolor represents what is often regarded as the birth of abstract painting. Last week Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum put the pioneer abstractionist's modern-day reputation to a bold test: at the London art auction house of Sotheby & Co., the museum offered for sale no less than 50 of its 170 Kandinskys. Fears that such a mass sale might depress the market proved unwarranted. For it was painting from Kandinsky's early abstractionist period that brought the top money...
BROOKLYN-Eastern Parkway. Watercolor was the first medium that Joseph Mal-lord William Turner attempted and he continued in it long after he became England's great romantic painter. This major exhibition of his watercolors, lent by the British Museum, embraces his genius from the disciplined draftsmanship of his student days (the earliest was drawn at 14) to later seascapes so impressionistic in color and spare of design as to border on the abstract. Through...
Realism is represented by Andrew Wyeth's A Day at the Fair, a drybrush watercolor of a Negro girl alone at home. Its social side is found in Jack Levine's police dogs in Birmingham '63. Geometric expressionism shows in the "hard-edge" painting of Richard Anuskiewicz' blinding checkerboard or in Ellsworth Kelly's triad of yellow tongues. Pop art's proponent is James Rosenquist's Morning Sun, with a plastic awning rising to stifle a billboard model's yawn...
...collection of its own; but if it can put on more shows like this one, it should become a favorite attraction. This show was organized by Lloyd Goodrich, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the leading authority on Homer. The paintings are mostly in watercolor, a medium of which Homer was a master, although he did not take to it until the advanced...
Kaelber said that the watercolor sketch which the Councilmen have seen exaggerates the appearance of the building...