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...nature but in the mind, and that form and color had a life of their own quite independent of subject matter. His apparently cluttered pictures were actually delicate mosaics in which color was used for its own sake and a carefully constructed design was imposed upon reality. As a watercolorist, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts ranks him with Winslow Homer and Marin; as an artist, the museum dubs him America's "first modern...
Recipients of two National Institute of Arts and Letters gold medals, to be awarded in May: ailing Watercolorist...
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...