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intervened, and the president never sat for him. The artist's portraits could be controversial; the likeness of Clark in particular was not well-received, and was only accepted by the city at the subject's insistence. Some critics have stated that
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planned to open a wing dedicated to contemporary art; Watkins was one of six
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depicting a man in a clown costume lying on a table and holding a smoking gun. The piece, which was highly controversial and criticized for its morbid subject matter, won the 1931
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in 1967. He occasionally wrote articles about his discipline for art magazines; one particularly notable piece, "An Artist Talks to His
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