Word: watercolor
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Esthetic freshmen haven't been slighted in the new plans, Peterman pointed out. Professor John P. Coolidge '35, of the Fogg Art Museum helped with the remodeling by lending ten contemporary American watercolor paintings for the main Common Room. Also a new Steinway grand piano will be moved into the Upper Common Room...
...play himself in his forthcoming cinebiography, a year from next August. === John Marin, 75, top-ranking watercolorist, got the sort of tribute that is closest to an artist's heart. At the WAA sale of State Department paintings that offended Congress (TIME, April 14, 1947), a Marin watercolor fetched $10,000 from St. Louis' City Art Museum...
Before the opening, there had been a few false starts (Jane Wyman set her watercolor to dry in the sun, but an unexpected shower sprinkled it away). There were also some explosions of temperament (Ginger Rogers refused to let one cherished piece of her sculpture out of the house). But he-man Fred MacMurray double-wrapped his watercolor (Red Chimney) and sneaked it in the back door of the hall; Sigrid Gurie presented a painting signed "Sigrid" (after all, Van Gogh signed his "Vincent"); Mrs. William Powell, whose husband may currently be seen in Life with Father, offered a still...
...struggled for just the right words. One thought that Lionel Barrymore's etchings (Purdy's Basin and San Pedro) had a "professional touch." The gallery director felt obliged to say that Cinemoppet Margaret O'Brien "has definite promise. . . . There's an oriental simplicity about her watercolor, Autumn Leaves, which many artists work for years to capture." One critic summed up: "I hate to hurt their feelings, but almost all of the work ... is fairly...
...sundown, in Colorado Springs last week, the watercolor copies within the museum lay smooth and undisturbed, looking as if some squatting Navajo had just pinched out a last blue border on the sand, and then suddenly and silently vanished...