Word: watercolor
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...began to fill his list of new U.S. representatives abroad. As Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, he named Winthrop Williams Aldrich, 67, chairman of the board of Chase National, one of the nation's largest commercial banks. An amateur musician, artist (specialty: watercolor seascapes) and crack yachtsman (navigator of the America's Cup defender Enterprise), Aldrich is a longtime friend of Britain, was president of the British War Relief Society during World War II, helped swing Britain's first postwar loan from...
...Chicago, the Renaissance Society took over a hall at the University of Chicago, filled it with 439 works by such recognized artists as Rainey Bennett, Abraham Rattner and Milton Avery-everything from bold abstract posters to realistic etchings, watercolor landscapes, and oil paintings. Within the week, 1,000 students, teachers and young married couples, some from as far as 50 miles away, had come to browse around, gone home with 61 first-rate works of art tucked under their arms. Chicago's fedora prices: from $1.50 for a small drawing to $50 for a large work by Yves Tanguy...
Although the beaches of both camps were well sprinkled with pelicans, the huge show had a hard core of excellence. Perhaps a score of the 559 pictures transcend both expressionist strutting and abstractionist wing-flapping, as well as prosaic egg-laying. For two such pictures-standouts among the six watercolor award winners-see following page...
Three years age, a small, basement room in the Mallinckrodt Chemical Laboratories was temporarily converted into a museum. In place of the usual glassware and bottles of reagents there was an exhibit of oil and watercolor paintings, several pieces of finely done statuary, telescopes, violins, and elaborate plans for a two-unstirred schooner...
...legion had reason to be proud of its acquisition, for the experts seemed agreed that it was certainly one of Renoir's best. As delicate as a watercolor, it showed a buxom girl watching a bare-bottomed little boy as he petted his cat. Renoir never titled it, but Vollard had supplied a painstakingly descriptive one: Woman Guiding a Child's First Steps Toward a Chair on Which There Is a Kitten. The legion, with the blessings of the experts, called it simply Coco and Gabrielle...