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...Watercolor: Publicity Writer Patricia Coffin, 25, whose first drawing, age eight, was of a rhinoceros...
...largest (24 ft. by 9 ft.) exhibits at the Museum of Modern Art show last week was a watercolor copy of a rock painting from Mtoko Cave in Southern Rhodesia. Covering a complete wall the Mtoko cave mural is a comprehensive prehistoric art collection in itself. Almost invisible, all the way across the top reach two hazy white elephants. Drawn in profile with only two feet, they are among man's earliest attempts at graphic representation, doubtless done early in the Aurignacian period. But the Mtoko mural is richest in its examples of later (Solutrean, Magdalenian, Mesolithic, Neolithic...
...York Historical Society. Directly across West 77th Street from the ungainly American Museum of Natural History, the New York Historical Society boasts and refuses to transfer 464 of the most important original watercolor drawings of John James Audubon. Other treasures include rooms full of historical portraits, the Isaac J. Greenwood Collection of 405 watercolor drawings of powder horns...
...when a clergyman told him the Greek legends of the constellations. He attended Eastburn Academy, took night courses in architecture and engineering at Franklin Institute, worked in a medical laboratory and an engraving shop, studied art for three years, still does some work with watercolor and oils. Another of his interests is growing fancy orchids, another is music...
...National Park Service headquarters on the University of California campus at Berkeley, men were hard at work last week framing, glazing and cataloging a collection of 198 oil and watercolor paintings. At the same time, high in the snows of Yosemite, Director C. A. ("Bert") Harwell of the Yosemite National Park Museum was scratching his head over the largest windfall his institution had ever received...