Word: watercolorists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. John Whorf, 56, watercolorist who had what one critic called a "breathtaking skill in depicting reality"; of a heart attack; on Cape Cod, Mass...
...Henry IV in 1946. A step backward from Henry in English history, it is also a step or two downward in Shakespearean art. Yet since the Old Vic's current bill, unlike its earlier one, is all-Shakespearean,* this brilliant bit of early characterization, a sort of watercolorist's Hamlet, was not necessarily ill-chosen. It was a good taking-off point to soar from. And as proof of the Old Vic's feeling for tradition, its reaching for distinction, its high competence in production, Richard was rewarding enough. What reduced a good early work...
Thus Painter Charles Burchfield confided to his journal the self-doubts that have tormented him throughout his career. Last week Manhattan's Whitney Museum gave convincing proof of just how wrong Watercolorist Burchfield could be. The museum's major retrospective showing of 114 Burchfield paintings and sketches rated a resounding critics' salute and established him, at 62, as the greatest living U.S. watercolorist...
...hurricane has just hit," wrote John Marin after a big blow in 1944. "The Seas are Glorious-Magnificent-Tremendous-God be praised that I have yet the vision to see these things." Watercolorist Marin, then almost 74, was spending his summer as usual on the Maine coast. Last week the wry, spry old master proudly showed the world that his vision is still as sharp as ever...
Ashfield, Mass., or a visiting Russian watercolorist's impressions of early 19th Century Night Life in Philadelphia (some young fops and a floozy gathered around an oyster barrel...