Word: watercolor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large and broad, immensely genial, bears a marked resemblance to London's favorite music-hall comedian, bushy-browed George Robey. As a painter he lived ten years in Paris, studied under the late great Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Jean Joseph Constant, wrote a text book on watercolor painting which is quoted by Encyclopaedia Britannica as an authority, and became a fashionable portraitist. But painting is only one of the many things that Artist Lintott has done. He worked under Lord Northcliffe on the Daily Mail at its inception. He edited and illustrated a colored Women's Supplement...
...permanent collections which sustain its reputation. Among these: the Avery collection of Chinese cloissonne; a collection of Xapoleana unsurpassed in the U. S., donated by the late Dean Marion Reilly of Bryn Mawr College: the American rooms, 22 excellent native interiors faithfully rebuilt in the museum; a modern watercolor collection scarcely to be equalled anywhere (much notable work by Sargent, Homer, Burchfield, Hawthorne, Davies, Demuth. etc., etc.); a collection exhibiting the history of costume in the U. S.; the 461 famed water-colors of the Life of Christ by the late James Joseph Jacques Tissot. Friendly, white-haired William Henry...