Word: artists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither. Although on April 8 Clarice Aiken, Wife No. 2, obtained a divorce from Author Aiken in Boston, Mass., he had obtained a Mexican divorce from her last summer, forthwith married Mary Hoover, 30-year-old Boston artist and dancer...
...large, pale face, gentle, cavernous dark eyes, a Roman beak, cub ears and a meditative mouth. He has a famous aversion to being photographed and never until this spring had he sat for an important portrait in oils. Last week the completed Portrait of T. S. Eliot by Artist-Author Wyndham Lewis suddenly became celebrated. It was refused a place in the Royal Academy's annual exhibition of British Art. And in protest against this act the Academy's most distinguished member, bearded, boggling Artist Augustus John, promptly and gratefully resigned. Said he: "A picture by a person...
Poet Eliot frequently had to sit most of the night while Artist Lewis worked feverishly on his portrait, which shows him looking dark and bitter in a grey-blue suit. When the picture was rejected he wrote to Lewis: "The portrait is one by which I am quite willing posterity should know me. . . . But I am glad to think that a portrait of myself is not to appear in the exhibition of the Royal Academy." Last week black-hatted, black-witted Wyndham Lewis (The Apes of God) turned up as a critic at the Academy's socialite preview...
...Romney portrait is of Mrs. Raikes, who tightly clasps her little girl. The artist has painted her with a real sense of life and of action, conveyed both by her affectionate gesture and her friendly glance. He has grouped the two in one of his own inventive designs, simple and vigorous, and he has suppressed all matters of form and shadow, to intensify it with color, dull red and green and white...
...sake of a mere exhibition did Artist Campos come to the U. S. Landing in Manhattan in November, he and shy Señora Campos bought a small car and proceeded to jaunt over 17,000 miles of the Southwest, the West and Mexico, stopping off in Hollywood for two months. There Artist Campos and Cine-martist Walt Disney talked over the possibilities for bigger & better animated cartoons. Most fun Artist Campos has yet had in the U. S. was in Los Angeles, Calif., where he rode as a gaucho in the rodeo...