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Fine Arts
February 6, 1879 issue

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The twelfth year of the existence of the American Water-Color Society opened, with every evidence of vitality, with the exhibition begun last Monday. There are 595 numbers, including oftentimes several sheets to a number, as in the black-and-white exhibit, which is of singular beauty this year. The particular accent of the present exhibition is conferred by a class of workers who have been experimenting with simple clouds of color floated on wet paper. By soaking the heaviest Whatman paper with clean water, and applying transparent color to the drenched surface-soaking up portions for high-lights with an almost dry brush, graded tints may be obtained of all the delicacy of an ether.

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EXHIBITIONS; WATER -- Color; PAINTING; ARTS; AESTHETICS; PHILOSOPHY
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