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...known John Marin 22 years. . . . He is a realist, a colorist, an artist and a poet. He is important because he has taken water color painting which has always been a minor art, and made of it a major medium...
...Boothville people are wealthy," said Artist Brown. "Every tenth house is a poolroom or saloon and they have four or five dances a week...
...Artist Brown draws as he talks, crudely, positively, in a manner that admits of no erasures, no changes. He applies color in broad flat washes. Critics find his matter pleasing, his manner undeveloped. They take refuge in the safe expression, "promising...
...laboratories, specializing in lighting. To the cinema studios then went he and invented special lighting effects for Gloria Swanson's The Humming Bird. Drifting to New Orleans, he became manager of a Little Theatre, hobnobbed with the intelligentsia of Tulane University. Somebody told him he should be an artist. So Douglas Brown became an artist. Scorning art schools, he invented his own technique. Scorning easels, palettes and other effete appurtenances, he paints crosslegged on the ground with his picture on a piece of cardboard...
...hundred miles down the delta from New Orleans, Artist Brown discovered Boothville, La., on a peninsula 30 mi. long inhabited exclusively by leggers, river pilots and orange growers who live in houses raised on stilts to protect them from sudden floods and hurricanes. There he spends six months each year. His girl there was a beautiful redhead who was supposed to have descended from pirate stock. She eloped with a butcher...