Word: watercolor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group of photographs. They showed four panels by Bartolommeo Montagna, a minor master of the late 15th century Venetian school. Two of the panels, representing the Angel and the Virgin of the Annunciation, eventually passed into the collection of New College, Oxford. The other two were known only from watercolor copies; the originals had vanished...
...Kalighat painting." Kalighat pictures covered an extraordinary range of subject matter, from divinities to profanities. They were made to sell as souvenirs to pilgrims at the temple steps. The art first came into being when British colonists brought cheap paper and the technique of painting with transparent watercolor to Calcutta. It died when machine-printed cards and chromos undercut sales...
Altogether, there were some 100 drawings and watercolors by the versatile prince, showing a firm hand and a fine sense of the dramatic and the satirical. The French press swelled with artistic and patriotic pride. "A great but misunderstood watercolor artist and promoter of our modern navy," glowed one paper. Seven hundred people a day flocked into the Musée de la Marine to see the work of De Joinville. who once remarked: "Everybody writes his memoirs. I have drawn mine...
...Virtues. Pleissner explains his own art in primer-simple terms: "I get a big kick out of nature, the moods and changes of the year and the weather. Effects of light have a great deal to do with the mood, so I make small (7 in. by 10 in.) watercolor sketches on the spot, before the light changes too much. The full-size painting I make afterwards in my studio. Drawing is very difficult for me-I don't know a thing about perspective-and I draw on tracing paper first so as not to mess up the texture...
Died. John Marin, 82, famed watercolor artist, regarded by many critics as America's greatest painter; at his seaside cottage in Addison, Me. A failure as a button salesman and later as an architect, at 28 he turned to art, opened his first big Manhattan exhibition in 1909, when he was 39. Marin scorned" formal training and academic styles ("If you put on the paint right...it will tell its own story"), saw his vivid land and seascapes sell for as much as $10,000 apiece, kept hard at work until shortly before his death...