Word: whistlerian
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...right, first found John Marin in Paris making a precarious living by meticulously etching French cathedrals in the Whistler manner. In reaction to this intricate scratchwork he would go to the country, paint rapidly with loose splashes of color. Alfred Stieglitz had little sympathy with the Whistlerian etchings, but greatly admired the Marin water colors which were in reality shorthand notes for pictures by a man with a laborious technical background, an uncanny sense of color...