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Whitney Museum: The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City organize local and national competitions in water colors. The International Water Color Exhibition Biennials are held at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City, and similar shows are held in the Art Institute, Chicago, 111., and other major museums.
Consult Whitney Museum of American Art, A History of American Watercolor Painting, catalogue, with introduction by Alan Burroughs (New York 1942); Goodrich, Lloyd, American Watercolor and Winslow Homer (New York 1945). General histories of American painting, such as Edgar Preston Richardson's Painting in America (New York 1956), mention specialists in water-color painting. For current developments, consult catalogues published by the museums.In 1937, during a stay in Arizona, he painted a series of magic-realistic works of objects picked up in the desert. Over the next 15 years he experimented with a grid arrangement on the canvas, filled with pictograprrs that were undoubtedly influenced by Paul Klee, but which Gottlieb carried to a much greater scale. During the 1950's he turned to abstract landscapes, such as The Frozen Sounds, Number One (1951; Whitney Museum, New York). He later developed a form of "cosmic landscapes," commonly called bursts, of which Orb (1964; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts) is an example.
And while some of the design details are still being tweaked, it is now razor-clear that the building will do more to freshen the bond between Manhattan's art and architecture communities than any building since Marcel Breuer's Whitney Museum of American Art opened on Madison Avenue four decades ago. The aluminum-clad building, designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, founders of the Tokyo architectural firm Sanaa, evokes a stack of mismatched boxes on the verge of toppling over. |
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