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Prizes will be awarded in three different groups. For the best watercolor painting of a landscape or a still life group, a prize of $25 or a half-course in painting at the Guild will be given. No portraits will be accepted in this group, and candidates may submit two pictures of any size...
...similar prize of $25 or a half-course of instruction will be given for the best oil painting with the same restrictions as for the watercolor...
...late John Singer Sargent would occasionally mutter into his beard that "Portrait painting is a pimp's profession!" and go off to do his best work, loose inspired landscapes in watercolor. Frank O. Salisbury has little time for such relaxation. He is not only a court painter but a ceremonial painter, commissioned to record on enormous canvases such scenes as The King's Offering in Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey; The Official Picture of H. R. H. Princess...
Editor Renaud is small, grey, round-faced, with horn-rimmed spectacles. On the old World he made a good record as a newshawk. He is aloof, diffident, rarely mixes with his staff except to show them a watercolor he has painted, a poem or play he has dashed...
...might be expected the commonest hobby was watercolor sketching. Dozens of renderings of Rome, Spain and the coast of Maine hung on the walls. Architects Frederick Ackermann and John Russell Pope showed photographs. There were other hobbies, more original...