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...board includes the town's fire chief, town clerk, librarian and a few other regular folks. Republican Conte was a friend of Rockwell's and helped get a stop sign put up so cars would not screech out into the street in front of Rockwell's place, causing the artist to fear that an auto might crash into his studio. Rockwell wanted to paint Conte, but the Congressman never found time, and the artist died...
...poem The Public Son of a Public Man: "When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes,/ I was your son, high on your horse,/ My mind a top whipped by the lashes/ Of your rhetoric, windy of course." Auden cut a more attractive father figure, an artist of superior talent and technique who stalks the pages of the journal as a steady reminder of his friend's shortcomings...
...scene that would become his most famous image, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1941). With the last rays of sunset striking the tiny settlement, Adams scrambled to set up his camera, shouting "Get that, for God's sake! We don't have much time!" Not much, but enough for an artist of sublime sensibility to catch light on the run and keep it forever. --By Richard Lacayo
...last years of his life, Feininger (1871-1956) was about as popular as any modern artist in America could then be; and despite his German name, his years of teaching at the Bauhaus and his flight from Nazi Germany, he was American, having been born in New York City and emigrated to Europe in 1887. He longed to be a musician, supported himself by drawing caricatures and illustrations and did not start painting until he was 36. Naturally, Feininger did not begin with the style he is known for. But until lately, little was known of his early efforts. Most...
...took decades to get them back. When the Nazis branded Feininger a "degenerate artist" in 1937, he left 54 paintings for safekeeping with a Bauhaus friend named Hermann Klumpp. After the war, and for the rest of Feininger's life, the perfidious Klumpp refused to give them back, on the casuistic ground that although Feininger had "intellectual ownership" of the paintings, he, Klumpp, was their "actual physical owner." Moreover, they were in East Germany, whose Communist government refused to surrender them to America. Their ownership had passed to Feininger's wife Julia on his death, and after she died...