Word: artiste
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Toward the end of his pleasant life, Artist Mount flirted with spiritualism. Several of his supramundane gambits made copy for newsmen of the 1860s. The New York Evening Post once gravely reported: "We met him one day in Broadway, and he ... took from his hat a roll of papers filled with etchings by Rembrandt, who had the previous night appeared to him. . . . These . . . were probably Mr. Mount's own work, but produced under some spiritualistic hallucination."* The old painter's preoccupation with Rembrandt was deeper than the Post knew. A few years before his death from pneumonia...
...Proctor (Scott McKay) is daft in love with his neurotic, flutter-hearted patient, and has brought her to his family's home to calm her down for marriage. His-brother Douglas (Ralph Bellamy), a gay, bottom-slapping commercial artist, has a vaguely kind idea he can help straighten her out; she promptly determines to devour his soul. Douglas' wife Ann (Ruth Warrick), suspecting nothing, is all solicitude and sympathy; their little girl Lee (Connie Laird) is so infatuated that she begins to ape Evelyn's haloed mannerisms. Sick-minded Evelyn, using always the silkiest of deceptions, needs...
...such artist was known simply as McKay; he was a late-18th-Century itinerant painter whose Mrs. John Bush (see cut) was a clean, crackling portrait presenting the sitter with all the harsh candor of a snapshot. Another was Joseph Badger, Boston's outstanding portraitist from 1748 to 1758 (Copley superseded him). Badger's Mrs. John Edwards (see cut) made no attempt to impress anyone with the subject's elegance. Neither did Henry Gibbs (see cut), probably the work of one of the itinerant artists who traveled the countryside, sometimes carrying portraits prepainted except for faces...
...brought to the U.S. in 1894 (by Dr. Howard A. Kelly of the Hopkins Big Four) to illustrate medical and surgical texts by Hopkins writers. He practiced and taught a kind of work that color photography has never been able to supplant. An artist with a firsthand knowledge of anatomy can paint the steps of an operation without any confusing detail, leaving out the blood, swabs and the forest of clamps which clutter a photograph...
Other Brödel pupils represented in the show are Hopkins' Ranice W. Birch and Annette Burgess, Mayo Clinic's Russell Drake, Yale's Armin Hemberger. Their pictures clearly demonstrate that a good medical artist takes pleasure in beauty as well as scientific exactness. Most delicate are Miss Burgess' paintings of the tissue at the back of the eye, with each vein in glowing color. There is also a careful picture of a seven-and-a-half-day-old human embryo magnified 500 times (see cut), which James Didusch took two months to draw...