Word: watercolor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Never High Noon. "A painters life is determined by daylight," says Hurd, who knocks back an unvarying breakfast of eggnog, toast and coffee at sunup, then goes riding across the juniper-knobby hills. He may dismount, whip out a tiny watercolor set and sketch a bit of his domain. These glimpses are pulled together in his studio, where Hurd toils in the meticulous technique of egg tempera. The results, recently on view at Fort Worth's Amon Carter Museum of Western Art and opening last week in San Francisco's California Palace of the Legion of Honor...
Right from the start the mood was bullish. First up were European blue chips: a Kandinsky watercolor went for $7,200, a Salvador Dali watercolor reached an extraordinary $11,500, and a fine 1921 Mondrian peaked at $42,000. Then Russian-born Nicolas de Staël, who jumped out his studio window in 1955, sent bids skyrocketing when his semi-abstraction, Fleurs, soared to $68,000 to set a new record. In all, four works by De Staël brought...
...tour through the White House living quarters with the Johnsons, the Hurds saw a little painting of the small house where Lyndon Johnson was born. Hurd returned later and made a watercolor copy of it, having decided to use it in the background of the cover design. Then, working together, the Hurds produced a painting that, in many respects, presents the same picture that Writer Ronald Kriss's cover story paints of President Lyndon Johnson: a tall man under a very tall...
...Home was a favorite motif, whether it was a photograph of Chief of Naval Operations Admiral David L. McDonald's official residence on Observatory Hill, or a black and white print of a watercolor featuring two oak trees, two girls and two dogs, of the Johnson place on Pennsylvania Avenue...
...Gallery, 3 Church Street) is scheduled to close before this article appears. Every painting dealt with the glories of the Charles River, and the exhibit was called the "Save Memorial Drive Arts Show." Though the moral and political effort here is unassailable, the art was depressing. A Raoul Dufy watercolor stood out (any time that happens, you are in serious trouble). My preference was for a work called "Trading Ship" by Nielson Wright, who must be, one would guess, about eleven. He showed up his elders, who proved once again that realistic painting can never be truly realistic; nothing here...