Word: watercolor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this is not the only type of art in the Germanic Museum. It offers us a wide diversity in types of art; we are able to travel from the crisp little sketches by Oberlaender to a decidedly harsh watercolor by George Grosz. In this painting, called "Brotherly Love," there can be found the bloodshed, lust, and intensity of passion which characterizes war. His bright colors shed a distasteful but highly effective glow, and the physical gyrations of his men serve to heighten the wild and futile nature of armed conflict. Grosz never minces words; he seldom argues...
...Nichols is belligerent in refusing to "pick out the ugly things-strikes, droughts, ugly alleys and paint them." Subjects he prefers are the prairie landscapes of his youth, usually snowed under. These famed smooth snow effects Artist Nichols gets by laying on his oils in a thin film with watercolor brushes...
This exhibit, necessarily incomplete, is more than adequate, however. In it we can follow sketchily the general development of watercolor painting in our country, see work by Marin and Hopper, perhaps the two most outstanding contemporary artists in America, and also see that true art involves something more than the skillful manipulation of a brush. The collection serves as a fitting close to an unusually fertile season for the museum which has presented during the past year exhibits of etchings, watercolors, and oils taken from almost every important period in the history of art. it is to be regretted that...
...called "Kiss Me Quick" is a fine example of a Victorian method of amatory advance--now unfortunately outmoded. On the other hand, there are many paintings in the exhibit which are worth serious consideration because of their intrinsic value as works of art. Such a one is Homer's watercolor, "The Berry Pickers," in which the artist's skill in using the watercolor medium to bring out the brightness of the sky on a hot summer day can be clearly seen and appreciated...
...Chicago Art Institute's large and brilliant International Watercolor show,* visitors congregated around Ivan Le Lorraine Albright's When Fall Winds Blow, a portrait of two junky old houses. Reason: Submitted last year under the title Second Stories Are Popular, it was rejected because of a pink nude in one window. Artist Albright had now partly covered the girl with a shutter, painted not on the canvas but on the glass in front...