Word: watercolorist
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...extremes of this kind have given place to more effective economies: strokes of color and ragged whites which sometimes fail but more often succeed in bringing to life the "fighting" forces of wind, weight, water and light which he feels in landscape. Marin works over each picture with every watercolorist's trick, "scrubbing in" colors with the brush, tipping the paper for even floods of wash, using his thumb, rags, blotters to get the effect he wants...
...wedding in 1924 was not quite so quiet as the bride & groom had planned. The best man, famed Watercolorist John Marin, met the couple at the Weehawken ferry with the Chandler touring car his son, John Jr. still drives, smashed a lamp post and a grocery wagon and fought with a policeman before his friends were delivered to a justice of the peace at Cliffside...
...exhibition to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the most distinguished U. S. artist the gallery ever sponsored: Winslow Homer. It was a shrewd choice as a memorial exhibition. Greatly honored in his own lifetime, Winslow Homer certainly never thought of himself primarily as a watercolorist. Yet modern critics are generally agreed that the U. S. has produced only three men who could create virile, important work in what is widely regarded as a minor art form: Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, John Marin...
Following the centennial of the birth of James Abbot McNeill Whistler, British reporters interviewed Mortimer Menpes, one of the last of Whistler's surviving friends and pupils. Said this etcher and watercolorist, amid the cucumbers and carnations of his Berkshire truck garden : "The curious thing about Whistler was that he was simply no good at the technical side of his job. Even his best-known picture, The Artist's Mother, is fading rapidly. ... He hardly ever talked to us of America except to tell us of his experiences as a midshipman or whatever they call it in the American Navy...