Word: watercolorist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the gallerygoers, whether pro-or anti-Klee, wore a solemn mien, as required by traditional museum etiquette. But a visiting watercolorist walked in and asked: "Why isn't anybody laughing...
More to Tap. Young Dick Gump was already running everything but finances before his father died in 1947. An amateur composer and watercolorist, Dick Gump had sharpened his collector's eye and taste on buying trips to Mexico and Italy. He directs the business from a deskless office, likes to roam through the store's three floors wearing loud-colored sport shirts. He also keeps tabs on Gump's branches in Honolulu and Carmel...
...till his retirement before World War II, prepared to participate in his own immortalization, and had plenty of time to prepare. He let it be known that he would go to Hollywood to play himself in his forthcoming cinebiography, a year from next August. === John Marin, 75, top-ranking watercolorist, got the sort of tribute that is closest to an artist's heart. At the WAA sale of State Department paintings that offended Congress (TIME, April 14, 1947), a Marin watercolor fetched $10,000 from St. Louis' City Art Museum...
...steamship line, designs for his pastel-painted airports, drawings done as a LIFE war artist in India, silk-screen prints, lithographs and photographs of buildings on which he had collaborated, sculptures done for a chichi Hollywood bar, a huge restaurant mural in mosaic. "People think of me as a watercolorist," says Sheets, "because I've painted so many. Watercolors can be done in a hurry...
Married. Adolf Dehn, 51, satirical, lyrical lithographer and watercolorist; and Virginia Lee Engleman, 25-year-old fledgling artist; he for the second time, she for the first; in Wallingford, Conn...