Watercolor Artist - USA (2019-12)

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BarcelonaExhibition:

MissouriWatercolorSociety

April 24, 2020–May 23, 2020

Barcelona Academy of Art European Museum of

ContemporaryArt,Barcelona

The Missouri Watercolor Society is sponsoring a 16-day painting and sightseeing tour

of Barcelona, Cadaqués, Madrid, Toledo, Segovia, Bilbao and San Sebastián.

Prospectus, itinerary and costs on the website: http://www.mowsart.com

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ARTWORKBYANTONIOMASIADDSPOIGNANTVISUALS

TOTHISILLUSTRATEDHISTORYOFTHESTATUEOFLIBERTY.

Painting America’s

Brightest Light

LadyLiberty:AnIllustratedHistoryof

America’sMostStoriedWomanisthe

newestbookfromwriterJoanMarans

DimandartistAntonioMasi,presi-

dentoftheAmericanWatercolor

Society.The twohavecollaborated

beforetopublishNewYork’sGolden

AgeofBridges, andthistimeMasi’s

affectingwatercolorstyleistheper-

fectcomplementtoDim’sessayson

late19th-centuryAmerica.Masiis

animmigranthimselfandfeelsa

personalconnectiontothesubject.

“ThateveningofDecember7,1947,

whenourshipsailedintotheLower

ManhattanBay,andseeingtheStatue

ofLiberty,leftanindelibleimpression

onme,”saystheartist.“Having

crossedtheroughAtlanticOceanwith

myfamilyseekinga betterlife,the

Statuesymbolizesthehopes,desires

anddreamsonehas.Asa painter,I’m

alwaysseeking

subjectsthatpeo-

pleseeeveryday,

butdon’treally

stoptosee.”WA

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Happenings

Mother of Exiles

(watercolor on paper,

82x44½ )

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UNIVERSITY PRESS