Word: watercolorist
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...hurricane has just hit," wrote John Marin after a big blow in 1944. "The Seas are Glorious-Magnificent-Tremendous-God be praised that I have yet the vision to see these things." Watercolorist Marin, then almost 74, was spending his summer as usual on the Maine coast. Last week the wry, spry old master proudly showed the world that his vision is still as sharp as ever...
Ashfield, Mass., or a visiting Russian watercolorist's impressions of early 19th Century Night Life in Philadelphia (some young fops and a floozy gathered around an oyster barrel...
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...