Word: watercolor
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...thrilled," Ida was "thrilled." They had typical duplicate canvases of the same subject, a Negro named George. The difference between them was mainly that Freda painted only the head, called it Negro Head, while Ida painted a half-figure, called it George. Also in the show were a good watercolor portrait of Mama Leibovitz by Freda, oil portraits of Freda & Ida by each other, many a picture done in Mexico last summer-where both girls managed to travel on a one-man scholarship...
Between ranching and cartooning, he sometimes finds time to try a little serious sculpture and watercolor painting. But most of his leisure he spends puttering about the ranch, building rock gardens, making inlaid silver ornaments, casting fancy doorsteps and fountains out of colored cement. At 52 Jim Williams is proud of his sinewy, paunchless figure, boasts that he weighs the same 168 lb. that he did when he was a cowpuncher at 15. Says he: "All my life my hands and body have earned me a living. I have kept them in good shape to this...
...This watercolor is perhaps the best of his works included in the exhibit. Grosz shows, by means of florid, fleshy color, the essential similarity existing between a man and the side of raw meat which he is preparing to cut. Placed on a table behind which this butcher-like individual is standing, are plates and bowls which contain ground meats, salamis, and other foods representing the products for which the carcass of the slaughtered animal is utilized. In the lower left corner of the painting, there is a potted plant, the pale green leaves of which serve as a restful...
...this is not the only type of art in the Germanic Museum. It offers us a wide diversity in types of art; we are able to travel from the crisp little sketches by Oberlaender to a decidedly harsh watercolor by George Grosz. In this painting, called "Brotherly Love," there can be found the bloodshed, lust, and intensity of passion which characterizes war. His bright colors shed a distasteful but highly effective glow, and the physical gyrations of his men serve to heighten the wild and futile nature of armed conflict. Grosz never minces words; he seldom argues...
...Nichols is belligerent in refusing to "pick out the ugly things-strikes, droughts, ugly alleys and paint them." Subjects he prefers are the prairie landscapes of his youth, usually snowed under. These famed smooth snow effects Artist Nichols gets by laying on his oils in a thin film with watercolor brushes...