Word: breinin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the austere, windy surf scene on the opposite page, into the realistic but unreal city below it, Raymond Breinin (rhymes with winin' & dinin') has put the quality that sets him apart from most of his Midwestern contemporaries: his mystical imagination...
...Many of Breinin's imaginary landscapes, like The City, introduce medieval figures of religion or enchantment into modern, urban scenes. Others actually show medieval streets peopled with monks and harlequins. Still others, like The Beach, are dry, pastel-shaded landscapes in which human figures take on the impersonal quality of the sand and sea against which they move...
...Breinin's craft and delicacy as a painter have made him one of the most famous of younger U.S. artists, brought him prizes in many recent competitions (TIME, Nov. 17, March 23) and made important museums prize his work...
...provincial Russian tobacco merchant, Raymond Breinin came to the U.S. at the age of 14. A dark, bird-faced man of solitary habits, he works today in a small studio near Chicago's busy North State Street, undisturbed by the groaning and rumbling of a neighboring trolley line. One of his favorite mediums is gouache, a mixture of opaque colors with gum arable and water, which gives his paintings a subdued, somewhat chalky finish. He likes to play the guitar in solitude and speculate quietly about what he calls "the wonderful mysteriousness of life...
...recent show of little-known U.S. artists (TIME, Feb. 2). Copeland Burg, who paints between jobs as a crime reporter on the Herald-American, won a prize at the Institute show this year; so did Felix Ruvolo, with a quizzical portrait, Girl with Dog, and Russian-born Raymond Breinin, who paints imaginary scenes somewhat like of famed Russian Marc Chagall...