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Birth
1911 (Yonkers, New York)
Death
1982 (Massachusetts)
Lived/Active
Massachusetts
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J.W.S. Cox (American, 1911-1982)
J.W.S. Cox was a formidable, innovative watercolorist who is known for having invented the wet-on-wet watercolor technique (immersing paper in water and painting wet watercolor pigments onto the wet paper, so that the pigments could spread and take on a “life” of their own.
Cox was born May 18, 1911 in Yonkers, New York, the son of an architect and his wife. He grew up in Bruynswick and Wallkill, New York, and from an early age sketched land (showing 500 of 4460 characters). |
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