Word: watercolor
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Besides his ability as an oil and watercolor painter, Mr. Zerbe possesses so mean ability as a photographer. He brings to the Salon jury a nature judgement in design and composition which the competitors are most fortunate in having...
...known to the world of art until 1930 when Art Expert Dr. Paul Ganz cleaned it, published its photograph in a magazine. Since then museums and private collectors in a dozen countries have been anxious for it. The only other absolutely authentic Holbein self-portrait is a watercolor in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence...
...output, particularly the sculpture, was better than that of the adults. Outstanding were a plaster head of a miner by 15-year-old Mike Mosco; a stone buffalo by 11-year-old Antony de Paolo, who was run over and killed by an automobile few weeks ago, and a watercolor of a vixenish young lady in a little veil, painted by 10-year-old Donald Liguore of the Boys' Welcome Home and entitled Going to Town...
...judge it a distinguished jury had been chosen: President Jonas Lie of the National Academy of Design, Dean Everett V. Meeks of the Yale School of Fine Arts, Portraitist Augustus Vincent Tack. Carefully they inspected the work of Yale's amateur painters, awarded first prize to an impressionistic watercolor sketch of a child's head...
Second ($600) and third ($500) prizes went respectively to Gardenville, N. Y.'s Charles Burchfield for a large brownish watercolor of a logger's shed in a gloomy cypress swamp in wintertime, and to Woodstock's Henry Mattson for a seascape of wild waves and seagulls painted in fuzzy Cezannesque technique...