Word: watercolor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although his work is not as fully represented, the two pieces by Howard Turner '41 are sufficient to place him in the first rank of the exhibitors. His watercolor view over Boston housetops captures all the warmth and richness of Beacon Hill brick against the late afternoon sky. Carl Pickhardt '31 has four lithographs in the show, all very simply and very powerfully executed, especially the "Pieta" and the "Christ at Emmaus," with its Grecolike faces, and minimum of light areas. His work suggests the influence of stained-glass window design, with heavy lines blocking off areas of black...
...watercolor Chicago bought this week, was comparatively mild, for an Albright: a clutter of old bottles, dead fish, seaweed and barnacle-encrusted driftwood on a table overlooking a harbor...
Gouaches, requiring neither the heavy weight slugging of oil paintings nor the flyweight speed of watercolor, are the middleweights of painting, command a smaller price (usually from $50 to $150) but put on a fine show for the money. Unlike oil paint, gouache* (a combination of opaque colors ground in water and a preparation of gum arabic) is mixed with water in painting, is fast-drying, cheap and simple to use. Gouache painters need neither easels, oil, turpentine nor expensive canvas, can paint conveniently on anything from paper to wallboard. Unlike watercolor, where the texture of the paper shows through...
...water colors. He was in no condition to paint any himself. So he hung some paintings by contemporary artists and loved them. That gave Artist Bruce the idea of putting original water colors on the walls of U.S. hospitals. By last week it had produced an upsurge in the watercolor business...
Impresario Bruce's watercolor campaign publicizes one of the arts most congenial to U.S. artists. Because his splashes of color on paper dry quickly and cannot be worked over, a water-colorist has to make his plans beforehand and embody them with lightning speed and absolute sureness of hand. Unlike oil painting where brush strokes may be laid on canvas, removed, changed with slow, well-planned deliberation, water-coloring is as fast and spontaneous as a tennis game...