International studio (80.1925)

mceRnACionAL

winter shadow's

(water color)

by john e. costigan

n by john e. costigan eight years ago Mr.Costigan has

'down-stream" (water-color) _ & j & . &

grown steadily in ability and

reputation. His style has ceased
to be a matter of wonderment or
even concern, and the success of
his first one-man show, held this
season at the Rehn Galleries,
was not surprising to those who
had watched him develop from
year to year. Of course some
inherent need for particular ac-
cent or quality lies back of the
peculiar way in which he manip-
ulates his medium, for such
habits of procedure are but ex-
ternalized processes of pictorial
reasoning. From the very be-
ginning, when attempting to
sketch in oil pigments, he was
drawn toward the idea of Ioad-

march I925

./our twenty-nine