Word: bullfighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prodigious researcher, Lea had dipped into Mexico to learn about the Spanish origins of U.S. cattle. He came back with some dramatic bullfight sketches and material for a fine first novel, The Brave Bulls (TIME, April 25, 1949). Later, he visited Southwestern ranches and Midwestern stock farms, spent a solid week on the killing floor at Swift & Co.'s Chicago stockyards. The resulting pictures struck Texans as not only good but mighty authentic. Looking at a Lea branding scene last week, one grizzled cattleman remarked: "You can smell the smoke from the burned hair...
Sketched on a Mexican vacation last year, Chapin's bullfight scene was a far cry from his better-known studies of Chicago's garish, soot-covered landmarks and blistering, blustering street scenes. But its brilliant colors and on-the-spot realism were laid on with the same bright and accurate brush that had long since brought him into the front ranks of Mid-Western artists...