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Mention A 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.
With a children's slide shooting down from the attic, a pair of beds that look like space pods, blue rubber floors and pink walls -- not to mention a museum's worth of contemporary art and design -- one easily could mistake the London home of Kenny Schachter and Ilona Rich for an avant-garde playground.
"The White City of the North," traditional tag of Helsinki, is a more apt label than most cities acquire in their tourist literature. The capital's public buildings are mostly light in color and there are many broad boulevards and open places to let in the northern glow, which lasts about 22 hours of the 24 from May to July.
Of the city's chief sights, I would stress a few as musts. The boldly
modern Diet House, or Parliament, has a design, not to mention some statuary inside, that is guaranteed to rouse the most sluggish vision. The massive National Museum shows Finland's progress in a graphic way since the Stone Age. The delightful Open-Air Museum, on Seurasaari Island, is a treat to the eyes and to the inquiring spirit. The Railway Station is an architectural masterpiece of Eliel Saarinen. |
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