MARINE ART: Noble, Heuston, Wells Look at Three Quite Different Vessels There is space in John Noble's art, and a sense of things that matter moving through the universe, caught pictorially in small particulars. Does not the quick smear of white under the dolphin striker suggest-instantly and completely-the smell of wind-disturbed water, rain in the offing, and more of both to come? Don't you feel the great fabric of the schooner, her weathered wood and salt-seasoned canvas, turning and bridling to her anchor while she settles her feathers and her people thank God they'll spend this night at rest? These are seamanly perceptions; but I submit that a non-seaman can feel them as well. One need only walk into John Noble's world-which can be done with confidence, for nothing in it will ever let you down.
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John paints nothing but what he sees and has known; he hates nostalgia and sentimentalism passionately, because they blur and smudge his intimate affair with a world full of meanings. Is art, after all, a way to come at history? You bet it is. For history is not the dead hand of the past, it is the living, continuing story of man. Man before our time, man in our time, and man in time to come. The whole world does not, by the way, agree with this definition of history but we are dedicated to it. So it comes rather easy and natural that John Noble became the recipient of the National Society's 13th Annual James Monroe Award ... walking in the footsteps of such good chaps as Bob Albion and Alan Villiers. We do not present
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a full discussion of John's work here-a thing we long to see done in a separate publication-but it has been reviewed in SH 8 and 13, and we would be glad to send copies of that discussion gratis to anyone who writes to ask for it. No, instead we hope to shed a little light in the work of two other artists who do not know each other, or John Noble. What do they have in common? They have been in the scenes they depict, "they have been there" as the current idiom has it-and in their work they are true to what they have lived through. Each paints, thinks, sees the world in utterly different style from the others. But history dwells, we think, in the work of each-and she is a very discriminating lady. PS
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