Word: watercolor
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...water colors. He was in no condition to paint any himself. So he hung some paintings by contemporary artists and loved them. That gave Artist Bruce the idea of putting original water colors on the walls of U.S. hospitals. By last week it had produced an upsurge in the watercolor business...
Impresario Bruce's watercolor campaign publicizes one of the arts most congenial to U.S. artists. Because his splashes of color on paper dry quickly and cannot be worked over, a water-colorist has to make his plans beforehand and embody them with lightning speed and absolute sureness of hand. Unlike oil painting where brush strokes may be laid on canvas, removed, changed with slow, well-planned deliberation, water-coloring is as fast and spontaneous as a tennis game...
...gave a watercolor and drawing show in Manhattan, sold a few pictures (top: $15). Painter Heliker's $2,000 prize canvas, a hardbitten, blocky Vermont landscape, had been put on sale in Manhattan last autumn at $125, but nobody had wanted...
...follow, most of the artists have injected into their pictures a gay note which seems to belie the state of the world. Even George Rock's "Sad Scene", almost a line exception, seems merely a tour de force. F. F. A. Bruck's caricature and John Holabrid's two watercolors are particularly happy, and done in a fresh manner. Howard Turner's watercolor "Manhattan" together with his "Nude"--a sharp study done with a minimum of line--combine to make his probably the best and most original contribution to the show...
...blond, store-clerkish, 34-year-old Phil Dike, son of a California real-estate promoter, started his art career by imitating his grandmother, who used to paint reproductions of picture postcards. At 21, he won a medal in a local watercolor exhibition, shipped off to Manhattan, where he studied with oldtime U. S. Realist George Luks. After a spell in Paris and Italy, mostly sitting in cafés and talking, Dike returned to Southern California, settled down to teaching...