Word: watercolor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gave a watercolor and drawing show in Manhattan, sold a few pictures (top: $15). Painter Heliker's $2,000 prize canvas, a hardbitten, blocky Vermont landscape, had been put on sale in Manhattan last autumn at $125, but nobody had wanted...
...follow, most of the artists have injected into their pictures a gay note which seems to belie the state of the world. Even George Rock's "Sad Scene", almost a line exception, seems merely a tour de force. F. F. A. Bruck's caricature and John Holabrid's two watercolors are particularly happy, and done in a fresh manner. Howard Turner's watercolor "Manhattan" together with his "Nude"--a sharp study done with a minimum of line--combine to make his probably the best and most original contribution to the show...
...blond, store-clerkish, 34-year-old Phil Dike, son of a California real-estate promoter, started his art career by imitating his grandmother, who used to paint reproductions of picture postcards. At 21, he won a medal in a local watercolor exhibition, shipped off to Manhattan, where he studied with oldtime U. S. Realist George Luks. After a spell in Paris and Italy, mostly sitting in cafés and talking, Dike returned to Southern California, settled down to teaching...
...thrilled," Ida was "thrilled." They had typical duplicate canvases of the same subject, a Negro named George. The difference between them was mainly that Freda painted only the head, called it Negro Head, while Ida painted a half-figure, called it George. Also in the show were a good watercolor portrait of Mama Leibovitz by Freda, oil portraits of Freda & Ida by each other, many a picture done in Mexico last summer-where both girls managed to travel on a one-man scholarship...
Between ranching and cartooning, he sometimes finds time to try a little serious sculpture and watercolor painting. But most of his leisure he spends puttering about the ranch, building rock gardens, making inlaid silver ornaments, casting fancy doorsteps and fountains out of colored cement. At 52 Jim Williams is proud of his sinewy, paunchless figure, boasts that he weighs the same 168 lb. that he did when he was a cowpuncher at 15. Says he: "All my life my hands and body have earned me a living. I have kept them in good shape to this...