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...poem is the credo of Albert Christ-Janer; the greenhouse is the studio where he grows his watercolor studies of something more than nature (see opposite page...
...Since watercolor is a quick medium, it appealed to him from the start because it fitted into his crowded sched ule. He also found that he could not tolerate the smell of turpentine nor the messiness of oils. Though watercolors lack the warmth of thicker media, Christ-Janer strives to enrich them. In pursuit of textural effects, he has experimented with polymer glues to bind his colors, sand or gravel sprinkled on to give them tactility and visual variety...
...Smith for anything." He also proves himself happily at home in all genres and periods-from the romantic realism of his squalid bed-sitter in A Taste of Honey to the sculptural expressionism of his revolving turntable for Dylan. He is also uniquely fast (he splashed out 250 watercolor sketches for Hollywood's Oklahoma! in a fortnight), prodigiously productive (eight Broadway openings this season and a lifetime score of some 250 shows), and justly celebrated, with more Tony awards-six-than any other Broadway designer...
Never High Noon. "A painters life is determined by daylight," says Hurd, who knocks back an unvarying breakfast of eggnog, toast and coffee at sunup, then goes riding across the juniper-knobby hills. He may dismount, whip out a tiny watercolor set and sketch a bit of his domain. These glimpses are pulled together in his studio, where Hurd toils in the meticulous technique of egg tempera. The results, recently on view at Fort Worth's Amon Carter Museum of Western Art and opening last week in San Francisco's California Palace of the Legion of Honor...
...faltered. The 14 paintings are executed in tempera on small Plexiglas plates, something he often did before expanding them on large canvases. Some seem like multiple-photo exposures of oil refineries, lonely steelscapes gyrating in the sky. Others are pure scenery, where patchy foliage parts to let a background watercolor peep through the Plexiglas...