Word: watercolored
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...choosing not to live in his times, he spent his last years in the sunlit hills of Southern France in a solitary search for the pure sensations of color. And even more than his oils, the hermit master's ventures in the casual medium of watercolor blaze with a natural incandescence that never could be summoned by a light switch...
...with sleeves tightly rolled up-play out a grim game of checkers. One of the pictures that Mrs. Kennedy bought. Boys at Holly Beach, N.J., is in this vein, and to some eyes it may look like Jack, Bobby and Teddy on the Cape. The other is a watercolor of the artist's wife; Jackie paid "less than $1,000" for each. Anshutz' later work is mostly full-length portraits of women, pictures that effortlessly evoke the warm drawing-room atmosphere of the early 20th century. The women themselves could almost be contemporary...
Outlandish Revels. The drawing of a child's head that he did at 14, as well as a watercolor from his late teens, prove that he was a meticulous craftsman who could, if he had wanted, have bent to any fashion. But he wanted, as he said in a short story that he wrote about an artist who was obviously himself, to "revel in outlandish subjects." He could sometimes give a moonlit sky the same haunted-universe feeling as his contemporary, Albert Ryder. He could paint a game of croquet or a scene in Central Park with such feathery...
...many areas of India they were the first Europeans to arrive, and they made rapid pencil sketches of whatever caught their eyes, laying on a monochrome wash with color notations. These were later worked into finished watercolors. oils, or engravings. At first, Thomas, who was then in his late 30s and had trained at the Royal Academy, did most of the drawing, leaving the mechanical tasks to William; but William rapidly developed into a competent artist, and before the safari was over was signing many pictures himself. Much impressed by the gateway leading to Akbar's Tomb at Sikandra...
...itself closed because it is being redone partially in white. There is a crèche with exquisite. 18th century Neapolitan figures in the East Room. Some 1,200 members of the White House staff who last week attended the annual staff Christmas party received prints of a watercolor by Pennsylvania Artist Edward Lehman showing the Red Room as it has recently been redecorated in cerise...