Word: watercolor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white phone near Rusk's uncluttered desk reaches Johnson directly. Alongside it, a pale green phone with a black receiver hooks him up to the new KY3 super-security network that links the President, the Pentagon and major military commands. Behind his desk hangs a Norman Rockwell watercolor of Johnson inscribed by L.B.J.: "To Dean Rusk, my wise counselor...
...poem is the credo of Albert Christ-Janer; the greenhouse is the studio where he grows his watercolor studies of something more than nature (see opposite page...
...Since watercolor is a quick medium, it appealed to him from the start because it fitted into his crowded sched ule. He also found that he could not tolerate the smell of turpentine nor the messiness of oils. Though watercolors lack the warmth of thicker media, Christ-Janer strives to enrich them. In pursuit of textural effects, he has experimented with polymer glues to bind his colors, sand or gravel sprinkled on to give them tactility and visual variety...
...Smith for anything." He also proves himself happily at home in all genres and periods-from the romantic realism of his squalid bed-sitter in A Taste of Honey to the sculptural expressionism of his revolving turntable for Dylan. He is also uniquely fast (he splashed out 250 watercolor sketches for Hollywood's Oklahoma! in a fortnight), prodigiously productive (eight Broadway openings this season and a lifetime score of some 250 shows), and justly celebrated, with more Tony awards-six-than any other Broadway designer...
...faltered. The 14 paintings are executed in tempera on small Plexiglas plates, something he often did before expanding them on large canvases. Some seem like multiple-photo exposures of oil refineries, lonely steelscapes gyrating in the sky. Others are pure scenery, where patchy foliage parts to let a background watercolor peep through the Plexiglas...