Word: artfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Research Leah Gordon, who led the effort to find a suitable institution to house the collection. The National Portrait Gallery, established in 1962, seemed to be the ideal place. Reporter-Researcher Rosemary Frank finally succeeded, after months of work, in tracking down and retrieving hundreds of pieces of cover art, some of which had drifted to TIME offices round the world. Promotion Director Robert Sweeney arranged the complicated details of the bequest with the gallery. The gift was accepted by S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. "These portraits are as stylish and as spirited as the people they...
...show people who have had the strongest impact on American life. Both, in other words, tell history-and that's where they can meet." Sa dik also believes that TIME's covers are contributing to a revival of portraiture. "In the first decade of the 20th century, art went abstract, and representational portraiture became declasse," he explains...
...with the reintroduction of the image in pop art of the 1960s, there's a new interest in portraiture, and I hope it continues. A painted portrait is the totality of an artists analysis of his subject...
...slope. When we reached the bottom, there was a squeal of rubber as he ... made the turn. After our drive he said to me, "This is a very fine automobile. It holds the road very well." "You are an excellent driver," I replied. Diplomacy is not always an easy art...
That same day, F. Eugene Dixon, millionaire owner of the Philadelphia 76ers and the chairman of the Philadelphia Art Commission, phoned LaSala. "Buy LOVE, Joe," he said. "Whatever it costs, I'll pay for it." Fortunately, LOVE was still for sale, and LaSala negotiated a new price-$35,000. LOVE will be back on its pedestal, where it belongs, this week and, as LaSala says, "it never should have left in the first place...