Word: albright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Malvin Marr Albright, 57, controversial Chicago sculptor and painter, of richly colored, meticulously detailed still lifes and portrait studies (Victoria, Girl in Red), son of aged painter Adam Emory Albright, twin brother of painter Ivan Le Lorraine Albright; and Mrs. Cornelia Fairbanks Ericourt, 42, granddaughter of Charles Warren Fairbanks, vice president of the United States under Theodore Roosevelt (1905-09); he for the first time, she for the third; in Old Saybrook, Conn...
...chauffeur-driven Cadillac. At least once a year she goes off alone to her six-room Georgia house near the Okefenokee Swamp, where she calmly shoos water moccasins into the water "because they can't bite from there." Every summer Publisher Patterson visits her sister Josephine Patterson Albright* at her ranch in Dubois, Wyo., largely so that she can be with her sister's two eldest children, Alice, 13, and Joe, 17, who she hopes will run Newsday some...
Results Are Something. Albright's brushes are the smallest obtainable. For really fine work he uses one lateral spine of one chicken feather, tied to a handle for him by a man who specializes in tying fishermen's flies. His first step, which may take years is to cover the canvas with a very detailed charcoal drawing. After fixing the charcoal with a spray, he begins applying thin glazes of oil color, sometimes spending weeks on a square inch. When I get sick to death of painting glass " he says "I paint wood for a while. Then when...
When he gets sick of painting altogether. Albright taxies home to Chicago's fashionable North Side (his wife is Josephine Medill Patterson Reeve, daughter of the late founder of New York's Daily News) or goes off to his Wyoming ranch At such times of rest, Albright readily confesses that he does "not enjoy painting much. I go at it the hard way. with my eyes wide open. But I do like getting the results I want. I'd rather paint one good picture than a hundred bad ones. Anybody can paint bad ones-including...
...Among Albright's most famous works to date are a phosphorescently rotten-looking woman in underwear called Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida and a moldy door called That Which I Should Have Done, I Did Not Do. "I just can't seem to paint nice things," he muses. "I've tried but it doesn't work. Once I designed a Christmas card and got a prize for it but no royalties. I think the only copies sold were those bought myself. It was a stained glass window-very dirty and dusty. Looked...