The book is a distillation of 5, 000 pages of text and more than 800 watercolors.
An exhibit of 100 Sneden watercolors not included in the book will begin touring this fall.
Time off: Keeps a leather-covered journal in his breast pocket, for watercolors and notes.
The blue of these watercolors is extraordinary in expressing the magic of the Orient.
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"Someone suggested that he take up painting and he had a go with his children's watercolors, " Robbins said.
At his apartment, he pulled out some watercolors by Alberto Lescay, a Cuba-based painter, that were inspired by his music.
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But that isn't evident in the glowing exhibition of watercolors by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) now on view at the Brooklyn Museum.
Zega and Dams' watercolors are composed of hundreds of such discoveries, alive with exacting details as sharp as the facets of a gemstone.
With 80 oil paintings, watercolors and drawings, "The Late Interiors" can feel a bit overwhelming--especially since each painting requires so much of the viewer.
Seeing these watercolors assembled in this glittering array reassures us that Sargent remains a singular talent whose works still dazzle us a century after their creation.
Among them were three early watercolors, two signed cards, two handmade cards, two sketches--of Donald Duck and Goofy, made when Kurt was 6--and a handwritten note.
That both museums purchased entire exhibitions of Sargent watercolors in 1909 and 1912, respectively demonstrates not only their early collecting acuity, but also the artist's important place at the time.
W. Turner's watercolors and their proto-abstract sensibility as precursors to Sargent's, which often include their own nondescriptive forms, scattering and reforming themselves into depictions of places and things.
W. Turner and painters of the Hudson River School, along with watercolors, fragile hand-painted miniature panoramic scrolls, historic tinted photographs, stereographs, prints and even fragments of panoramic wallpapers.
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But everyone, it seems, questions his drawings and watercolors.
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He made wood engravings and watercolors and ink drawings.
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While the plein-air paintings of the Impressionists and post-Impressionists seem studied in comparison with the informality of these watercolors, we search the Sargents for evidence that their creator was aware of the developments in abstract art during the first decades of the 20th century.
Those pictures were her one real memento of him, page after page of watercolors from a world that, even before she opened the book for the first time, was gone forever, leaf green and sky blue and damson, wiped out by a tide of cattle trucks and unmarked graves.
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