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Issue Date: APRIL 1987; VOLUME 51, ISSUE 537
IN THIS ISSUE:-
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FRONT COVER: Rabbits and Young Madrones, by Bet Borgenson, 1985, colored pencil, 25'/2x 20. Collection Mr. and Mrs. John Loewen.

FEATURES:
WHY COLLECTORS BUY CONTEMPORARY ART: An interview with Eli Broad, founding chairman of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles by M. Stephen Doherty.

A SENSE OF LIGHT AND AIR IN LANDSCAPES by Bruce Weber. The curator of a new exhibition of late nineteenth-century American landscapes explains how artists achieved certain atmospheric effects while working out-of-doors or in their studios.

THE WATERCOLOR PAGE: SHEILA HARRINGTON. This Washington, DC, artist explains her approach to transparent watercolor.

FURTHER TECHNIQUES FOR USING COLORED PENCILS by Bet Borgeson. Bet Borgeson, an authority on colored pencils, explains how to save time without sacrificing quality in colored-pencil drawings.

PAINTING ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS IN WATERCOLOR by James DeVore. Ohio artist James DeVore illustrates his step-by-step technique for using watercolor to paint the fects of fog, rain, and snow.

THE CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF WATERCOLOR by Janice Lovoos. This approach to watercolor that emerged in the 1920s and flourished when American Artist was first reporting on California artists in the 1930s and 1940s is now a pervasive influence on watercolorists in every region of the country. by Jerry Croghan.

DEPARTMENTS:
ART MART.
CASUAL COMMENTARY.
ART BOOKS.
BULLETIN BOARD.
TECHNICAL PAGE by Prof. Clifford T. Chieffo.
COMING IN MAY.
INDEX TO ADVERTISING.
EXHIBITS.

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