Word: watercolor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Editor Renaud is small, grey, round-faced, with horn-rimmed spectacles. On the old World he made a good record as a newshawk. He is aloof, diffident, rarely mixes with his staff except to show them a watercolor he has painted, a poem or play he has dashed...
...might be expected the commonest hobby was watercolor sketching. Dozens of renderings of Rome, Spain and the coast of Maine hung on the walls. Architects Frederick Ackermann and John Russell Pope showed photographs. There were other hobbies, more original...
Unlike Writer Thurber, Writer White admits to no natural aptitude for drawing. He believes his watercolor seahorse will be his last attempt at art. Shy, he does not woo publicity, rarely lets his name appear in the magazine. Before joining the editorial staff of The New Yorker, Writer White was a poet without much sense of location. He had wandered from New York, where he was born in Mount Vernon, to the Aleutian Islands. After graduating from Cornell in 1921 he worked a year in New York City, then wandered West, worked a year on the Seattle Times...
Also awarded last week were prizes for the college art currently on exhibition in Manhattan. Winners included: oil painting, Jean Elizabeth Wade of Yale; watercolor, C. E. Hewitt of Princeton; drypoint, Mildred Shute of Kentucky; sculpture, Robert Koepnick of Dayton Art Institute...
...English are represented by a large number of paintings which include the works of such men as Spencer Frederick Gore, Duncan Grant. Augustus John, and Bernard Meninsky. Of these, Augustus John is represented by the largest number paintings, including three oils, three drawings, and one watercolor. Many of the paintings in the exhibition we lent by the Fogg Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum and the Hackett galleries...