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Seventeen watercolor paintings by Stewart D. Kranz '49 will go on display today at the Copley Art Galleries as part of a two-man show by Kranz and William S. Cox, a Rockport art teacher. The exhibition, which marks the first public appearance of Kranz's work in Boston, will continue through February...
...Goddammit," says Odets, "we're living in an age of learn-it-quick. Everyone wants to learn all the tricks of everything he does, all the angles. Every professional writer feels the pressure this vicious, evil society imposes. But in watercolor painting I don't feel that. I can relax. I am an amateur, and I can damn well produce something on which $100,000 doesn't hinge. I paint for two reasons: to cultivate my innocence and to cultivate my ignorance...
...Odets earns enough as a movie plot-doctor to collect art (he owns some 200 canvases ranging from the French Impressionists to Georgia O'Keeffe), but he was looking for something to give him creative "self joy." His wife gave him a watercolor...
...together for the National Gallery as an enormous Index of American Design, which artists and manufacturers can study in one place instead of seeking out the scattered originals, it makes a file of about 22,000 pencil and watercolor copies of 17th, 18th and 19th Century homemade art. Some of the collection has been seen before (notably at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum); other parts will eventually be reproduced in a companion volume to the National Gallery's Masterpieces...
...slender, studious Curator John Walker of Washington's National Gallery. Walker and his helpers among top-drawer U.S. museum directors had no trouble picking 19th Century masters like Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, but debated back & forth over such contemporary choices as Morris Grave's scratchy watercolor called Little Known Bird of the Inner Eye and Man Ray's crisp Admiration of the Ochestrelle for the Cinematograph...