Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...artist. The family stock was a mixture of Dutch, German, French and English. When young Whittaker was three, his family moved to Lynbrook, L.I., where Mrs. Chambers raised chickens and vegetables to piece out the family income. As a child, Chambers slaughtered fowl and peddled vegetables. He was a boy of insatiable curiosity who read Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment at eleven, and wandered on solitary walks through the woods, which he loved...
...known simply as "Carl" appeared in the Red "cells" and in the innermost circles of the Communist underground. He buried his identity so successfully that some of his accomplices thought he was a Russian; one of them was positive that he was a Russian ex-colonel. The little boy who had peddled vegetables in Lynbrook became a skillful and consecrated agent of a Communist "apparatus...
...first David had represented the young champion of a race-naked, frowning, indomitable, his murderous, swollen-looking right hand hanging loose at his side. The second version, done about 25 years later, had a softer, more subjective air; the boy's body was twisted like a flame and his head bowed dreamily over one shoulder...
Gustave Courbet was a handsome farmer's boy who grew up to be a beer-swilling, loud-mouthed giant-and one of the great painters of the 19th Century. While he lived, Courbet was generally belittled, and after his death he was eclipsed by the sunny brilliance of Manet. But the retrospective exhibition of Courbet's art staged in a Manhattan gallery last week, the biggest Courbet show ever seen in the U.S., gave ample proof of the big fellow's permanence and power...
When he first turned up in Paris in 1839, the farm boy was a little hard for his art teachers to take. He sat at the back of the life class with a huge paintbox by his side, doing studies three times as big as anyone else's. Instead of pumping his instructors he wandered alone in the Louvre, picked up a lot from looking at Rembrandt and the Spaniards...