Though it seems unsporting for jurors to include their own work, Ms. Collier's loosely brushed, heavily-patterned interiors with figures certainly provide painterly relief.

When observed through half-closed eyes, the canvas, loosely brushed in the same watery colors, metamorphoses from an abstraction to something evoking a view of Venice by Whistler.

The worst is an ugly, gridded arrangement of square paintings of artists and art people - Roy Lichtenstein, Henry Geldzahler and others - made by silkscreening photographic images over loosely brushed color.

Loosely brushed, vividly colored, appropriating high and low from a worldwide pool of images and patterns, the series radiates the joy of discovering a new visual world (Johnson).

One of the show's revelations comes with the paintings of 1948, which Magritte in self-parody named his "vache" period, and which has long been derided for its loosely brushed, cartoonish imagery.

Chase's painting is a masterpiece of elegance, composition and refinement; Henri's a loosely brushed snapshot.

One wooded scene, "Clearing," with its loosely brushed pinks, lavenders, oranges and greens, is one of the most successful examples.

But today he is better known as a landscapist whose loosely brushed, Impressionist-style canvases had little to do with the realists' urban concerns.

Watercolors, loosely brushed in frames shaped like railroad tracks, suggest Chinese paintings.

Looking at Ms. Peyton's loosely brushed figure and landscape studies, one could guess that she would choose examples by Fairfield Porter.