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...study of his Cambridge home.Organized by Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., curator of American art, and Virginia Anderson, assistant curator of American art, “The Last Ruskinians” will be on view at the Fogg Art Museum until July 8. John Ruskin was a 19th-century British watercolorist who took what he called a “truth to nature” approach, producing realistic, vibrantly colored, and detailed images. He found a strong following among a group of Americans, who keenly imitated his no-frills style.The show displays a selection of Ruskin’s own drawings...

Author: By Victoria D. Sung, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fogg Dips Into Ruskinian Watercolor Era | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

...sense of identification with the landscape--just at the cultural moment when the religious Wilderness of the 19th century, the church of nature, was shifting into the secular Outdoors, the theater of manly enjoyment. If you want to see Thoreau's America turning into Teddy Roosevelt's, Homer the watercolorist is the man to consult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Into Arcadia with Rod and Gun | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Desai is a literary watercolorist who writes as if TV had not been invented, registering sounds and sights as a way to suggest more subtle currents underneath. As she describes Mexico, her prose catches fire with the smoke of copal, the "shriveled scorpions and fried grasshoppers" the Zapotec women lay out on the sidewalks, the trucks "rattling over cobbles the shape and size of human skulls." The skeletons that dance behind even a hotel reception desk remind us that the past here has the present in its thrall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Master, New Place | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

Guild is a comedy writer who is now writing a biography of her partner Niko, a watercolorist who died of brain cancer...

Author: By Brady R. Dewar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Does Senate Bill 541 take away tenants' rights to a day in court or prevent landlords from being cheated? | 4/28/1999 | See Source »

Guild, a comedy writer, is now writing a biography of her partner Niko, a watercolorist who died of brain cancer...

Author: By Brady R. Dewar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: LANDLORDS VERSUS TENANTS | 4/28/1999 | See Source »

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