Word: watercolor
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Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were surprised beneficiaries of the estate of the late Albert H. Phillips of Eastbourne, England, but got no part of his estimated $76,000 cash bequests. Instead, "as a tribute of respect for their outstanding qualities of leadership," each was willed a watercolor painting by obscure 19th-Century Artist John Callow (for Roosevelt: New York Harbour; for Churchill: Fishing Boat...
Died. Yvette Guilbert, 79, famed, tawny-haired pioneer diseuse; in Aix-en-Provence, France. The original of a Toulouse-Lautrec watercolor, her artistry was one of the risqué features of Paris of the '90s. In low neck and long black gloves she ranged from café songs to medieval ballads. She was received in England by Composer Sir Arthur Sullivan at Edward VII's request; in 1932 was dubbed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor...
Winston Churchill, Generalissimo & Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Joseph Stalin were among the rare birds whose watercolor portraits (after John James Audubon) were shown in Manhattan's Raymond & Raymond gallery last week (see cut). Their natures were suitably described by their caricaturist, 31-year-old San Franciscan Justin Murray. Sample: "Protectus Defendus (Joseph Stalin) -RANGE: Unpredictable. HABITAT: Enjoys sub-zero temperatures and thick, slimy mud. Remarkably mobile, he is frequently found far behind his enemies' nests. IDENTIFICATION: A large, tough bird-much tougher than anyone imagined. VOICE: Seldom heard. FOOD: Feeding habits are almost entirely beneficial...
...latter, alone, would stir a possessive itch. The plates are so handsome as to prove that, even in reproduction, fine drawings can give a tactile pleasure in addition to their esthetic worth. De Tolnay's definition of drawing includes some forms of watercolor work, and the whole range of tools -swan and goose quill, silverpoint, chalk, charcoal, pencil. His "Old Masters" range from an unknown Egyptian artist's outline drawing of Rameses IV to a 18th Century sleeping figure by Toulouse-Lautrec. Along the way are such choice items as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's gracious chalk masterpiece...
...Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn have stirred intelligentsiacs to as much prurient curiosity and as much sour criticastery as any novels since James Joyce's Ulysses, published an appeal for charity in the New Republic. He said he wanted contributions of old clothes ("love corduroys") and watercolor materials. In Beverly Glen, near Los Angeles, the 52-year-old, free-loving, free-sponging American-from-Paris had been destitute for months. Recently he had taken up painting...