Word: watercolor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cast-Off Antlers. The poster for an off-Broadway production of Arthur Miller's View from the Bridge was done after Shahn had seen the play at rehearsal. He found it "very powerful, very moving." Shahn's watercolor, Branches of Water or Desire, reflects his admiration for the poetry of his son-in-law, Alan Dugan, who won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1962 with his first volume. The picture illustrates one of the poems, which begins...
...poem compares both bird song and discarded antlers to the mysterious urge of the human mind to create. When Dugan saw the eerie anguish with which Shahn had endowed his subject, he went back to reread his poem. Shahn liked the watercolor so much that he redid it as a silk-screen print, making 50 copies. "I love doing public art," he explains. "Whenever a collector buys a painting of mine, he goes off and I never see it again...
...scion of a wealthy Baltimore brokerage family, Woodville showed his precocious talent at the tender age of eleven in a small but accomplished watercolor portraying a dying general. Properly educated, he studied anatomy at medical school for a year, then set off to train in Germany when he was 20. There, in Dusseldorf, he learned the romantic lighting and theatrical staging then in vogue, techniques that worked as well on U.S. local color as on Rhine landscapes. Though he lived abroad for most of the brief ten years before he died at 30, his fondest subjects remained the Eastern Shore...
Painter Nolan did his portrait in crayon and watercolor on paper (he has been known to use layers of paint burnished with one of his wife's nylons). Nolan also did a series of paintings inspired by Lowell's new play, Prometheus Bound, four of which appear with the story. His startling, highly imaginative visions bring to mind what Poet Stephen Spender once said of his work: "Conscious though he is of mystery, Nolan is not a mystifier. On the contrary, he is an explainer, and his figures, however bizarre, are self-explanatory...
Among other new highs at Sotheby's: a Cézanne watercolor still life of a milk jug and apples, which brought $406,000-the highest price ever paid for any watercolor at auction. Since the bidder was a Los Angeles dealer, people speculated that he had acted for Collector Norton Simon, who remained mum. A Degas bronze horse pranced off for a record price of $51,800. A Chagall picture (circa 1917) brought $84,000, a new record for him. All in all, Sotheby's knocked down for $2,962,960, 87 works of art, a record...