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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
fordhampress.com

Happenings


Mother of Exiles
(watercolor on paper,
82x44½ )
©2019 FORDHAM
UNIVERSITY PRESS
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