Example sentences for: watercolors

How can you use “watercolors” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • By curious coincidence, this fairy-tale conjunction of appealing nymphets and gory murder is currently the subject of an unusual show at the Museum of American Folk Art in New York: an exhibition of eccentrically magnificent watercolors by the late painter and writer Henry Darger.

  • Shortly before his death in 1973, after Darger moved out to a nursing home, his landlord opened up his room and discovered, amid piles of presumably artistic debris (hundreds of pairs of smashed eyeglasses, balls of string, old pairs of shoes, scores of empty Pepto-Bismol bottles), one 2,600-page autobiography, an 11-year weather log, 87 watercolors, 67 pencil drawings, and the tale of the Vivian Girls.

  • The Kamakura Municipal Museum of Modern Art houses a collection of Japanese oil paintings, watercolors, wood block prints, and sculpture.The Kokuhokan (National Treasure Museum) has a fine collection of objects from various Kamakura temples and shrines, including some excellent 13th-century paintings.

  • Royal Engineer officers sent watercolors of likely sites for Queen Victoria’s approval.

  • The Darger watercolors on exhibit include both peacetime tableaux of tiny lassies, some naked, some in dresses, disporting themselves among butterflies and enormous flowers and odd little birds--and scenes of maniacal carnage, in which the same tiny lassies are strangled naked (distorted faces, tongues stuck out) and disemboweled by merciless Glandelinians.


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