Word: watercolor
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...until after a year of agreeable acquaintanceship with the Sokolovs that Mrs. Woikin began to talk. The major gave her cash and expensive perfume. In return, she gave him a watercolor and secret information. Once she left a confidential document in a dentist's room for another agent to pick...
...some of them badly reproduced), such as Grant Wood's tufted Fall Plowing, to represent Iowa; John Steuart Curry's praying Negroes in a flood, which Curry called The Mississippi and the book labels Tennessee; John Falter's End of School (Pennsylvania); Dong Kingman's watercolor, Morning in New Orleans; Charles Burchfield's The Great Elm (New York). George Grosz's Tobacco Road looked as if he had seen the stage play, but not Georgia. A boy holding a lemon was labeled Boston; a picked chicken hanging on a door, Ohio. The attempt...
Modern masters are as stable as A. T. & T. Yet a war-plant worker can almost buy a Matisse on monthly payments. Some recorded sales of big-name moderns : a Van Gogh, $8,000; a Lautrec, $4,100; a Cézanne watercolor, $3,000; a Gauguin, $5,000; a Daumier, $5,500; a Picasso...
...Hitler moved from racially impure Vienna to Munich. There he continued to live a slum existence, eking out a bare living by peddling his watercolor paintings. There in June 1914, the news reached him that a Serbian nationalist had shot and killed the Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo...
...Wisp-haired, preoccupied Alfred Frankenstein of the San Francisco Chronicle chose a deft, architectonic watercolor of The Rockies by California's Dong Kingman...