Word: albright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nine years past, Ivan Le Lorraine Albright has been laboring over the same painting (opposite). He hopes to finish it in another three. The painting more than justifies Albright's dedication to it even now: it is at least as able as it is odd. The overworked word unique fits Albright's accomplishment exactly...
Things Are Nothing. Albright paints in an old wooden house in a dreary down-at-the-heel section of Chicago. "I like this neighborhood." he says. "I can think here." An ingenious system of black window shades enables him to throw just the light he wants on each portion of his still-life in turn. The still-life actually exists, whole, in his studio. Albright built the moldy brick wall himself, and assembled all the vast assortment junk that makes up the rest of the picture. The major items are on wheels, so that they can be shifted about...
...fool-the-eye realist, Albright paints each object in the light most flattering to it. To paint the whole picture in a single light would make it "static," he believes. Another Albright idea 5 to paint different objects at different angles. He will turn the canvas upside down to paint a bottle on a bureau, then turn it sidewise to paint the bureau. At first glance, everything in his pictures seems well anchored in space; at a second glance things start spinning...
Verbum Sap. In Martinsburg, W. Va., Farm Machinery Dealer Ray Albright put an ad in the Journal: ALL THIEVES please quit breaking into our store. We never leave any money around the place after closing hours...
...Angeles, a pair of youngsters who are veterans in figure-skating competition waltzed off with U.S. titles. In the men's division, World Champion Hayes Alan Jenkins, 20, won his second straight U.S. title; in the women's division, former World Champion Tenley Albright, 18, took her third straight. ¶ In London, another U.S. girl, Judy Devlin, 18, won the All-England women's badminton title, considered the world championship. Men's winner, for the second straight year:Malaya's Eddie Choong. ¶ At Hallandale, Fla., a California-bred colt popped up as a serious...