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UNITY?J, D. Beresford?Bobbs Merrill ($2.50). Katherine was a poet; Louise was adept at watercolor painting; Emily played the violin. Katherine Louise Emily Willoughby had to reconcile the talents, passions, ambitions of these people. So she adopted the accurate sobriquet, Unity, and spent her life trying to make it fit. She married a man, Brian Jessup, who went in swimming drunk, at midnight, in Sidney, Australia. She married an automaton, Michael Lord Mowbray, of whom she felt she was unworthy because he could not understand her. But only Adrian Gore, the man with the grey eyes, could give...
...though brief, the expedition realized all its objectives. For the Zoölogical Park and Museum of Natural History it collected 150 reptiles, 200 fish, 3,000 insects, hundreds of jars, vials and slides of specimens, and a most complete record of the expedition by watercolor, oil, pen and ink, photograph, film and notes. Many of the living species brought home have never been in captivity before, and many were entirely new to science...
...Moerdyke, director of the Camera Pictorialists of Los Angeles. Gum prints are made from a negative called a pattern, from which a retouched negative is transferred to paper in front of a light, eliminating or making prominent portions as desired. Tour printings are made on special watercolor paper, the negative being painted each time with gray or black pigments, bringing out the high lights, velvety shadows and soft lines reminiscent of Corot. One gum print requires six hours of manual labor...
...been completely restored and with difficulty transferred bodily to the gallery. In the oil painting room, two of the notable canvases are Marooned, and the Flying Dutchman-formidable pirate figures with Pyle's characteristic contrasts of color masses and sombre realism. There are Revolutionary War scenes, one small watercolor, illustrations for Pyle's own stories, A Modern Sinbad and the Pilgrimage of Truth (the latter painted on mahogany), and pen-and-ink sketches for many stories and articles originally published in Harper's Magazine...
Sheets of paper, pasted together, pumice-stoned and glazed, so as to resemble oilcloth, was the background on which the Japanese artist Tsugouhara Foujita painted his watercolor picture, entitled En Famille, which has made a sensation at the annual Paris United Salon. It represents an artist and his French wife seated at a table littered with brushes, colors, tobacco and cigarette papers, and is said to combine harmoniously the best traditions of Japanese and Oriental...