Word: watercolor
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Unlike Writer Thurber, Writer White admits to no natural aptitude for drawing. He believes his watercolor seahorse will be his last attempt at art. Shy, he does not woo publicity, rarely lets his name appear in the magazine. Before joining the editorial staff of The New Yorker, Writer White was a poet without much sense of location. He had wandered from New York, where he was born in Mount Vernon, to the Aleutian Islands. After graduating from Cornell in 1921 he worked a year in New York City, then wandered West, worked a year on the Seattle Times...
Also awarded last week were prizes for the college art currently on exhibition in Manhattan. Winners included: oil painting, Jean Elizabeth Wade of Yale; watercolor, C. E. Hewitt of Princeton; drypoint, Mildred Shute of Kentucky; sculpture, Robert Koepnick of Dayton Art Institute...
...English are represented by a large number of paintings which include the works of such men as Spencer Frederick Gore, Duncan Grant. Augustus John, and Bernard Meninsky. Of these, Augustus John is represented by the largest number paintings, including three oils, three drawings, and one watercolor. Many of the paintings in the exhibition we lent by the Fogg Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum and the Hackett galleries...
...large and broad, immensely genial, bears a marked resemblance to London's favorite music-hall comedian, bushy-browed George Robey. As a painter he lived ten years in Paris, studied under the late great Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Jean Joseph Constant, wrote a text book on watercolor painting which is quoted by Encyclopaedia Britannica as an authority, and became a fashionable portraitist. But painting is only one of the many things that Artist Lintott has done. He worked under Lord Northcliffe on the Daily Mail at its inception. He edited and illustrated a colored Women's Supplement...
...permanent collections which sustain its reputation. Among these: the Avery collection of Chinese cloissonne; a collection of Xapoleana unsurpassed in the U. S., donated by the late Dean Marion Reilly of Bryn Mawr College: the American rooms, 22 excellent native interiors faithfully rebuilt in the museum; a modern watercolor collection scarcely to be equalled anywhere (much notable work by Sargent, Homer, Burchfield, Hawthorne, Davies, Demuth. etc., etc.); a collection exhibiting the history of costume in the U. S.; the 461 famed water-colors of the Life of Christ by the late James Joseph Jacques Tissot. Friendly, white-haired William Henry...