William T Richards a Brief Outline of His Life And Art
William T Richards a Brief Outline of His Life And Art
Morris Harrison Smith
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I. i M -%■. A REEF NEAR NEWPORT, R. I \ --^-A^^. " N MASTERPIECES OF THE SEA Germantown house with excursions in the summer to various places, and after this period began the visits to the seaside, at first to Cape May and then to Atlantic City, which have left so deep a vein in the work of the painter of the ocean. During these years Mr. Richards devoted much time to the study of the technique of water-color, using both transparent and opaque color, and both white and colored paper. Charming a...nd delicate drawings were made in great number, many of them having 'been pur- chased by his beloved old friend, Dr. Magoun, who upon his death presented a large collectioii t)f them to the Metropolitan Museum in New York. In the course of this work he evolved a somewhat original technique of painting large landscapes after the manner of Tur- ner's " Rivers of France, " in body water-color on the coarse, gray paper used at that time for lining carpets, which cost but a few cents a yard — and he was fond of saying that he got his paper so cheap that he could af- 37 ^ WILLIAM T.
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