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The wind on Soldiers is so bad that last Spring it ripped to shreds several canvas screens hung on the fences of the courts. The trees that line one side of the area aren't much help, according to Barnaby.
GILBERT STUART once said, in a wry comment on the grand work of his mentor, Benjamin West, that ";no one would paint history who could do a portrait." Stuart went on from there to produce a great and unique visual record of American history expressed in portraits. This week'...
Painter Stuart, who always stubbornly insisted on putting to canvas exactly what he saw, also left behind a stern point of view that can serve journalists as well as painters. To a proud husband who complained that Stuart had failed to capture his wife's elusive beauty, the artist...
The painting (along with seven other stolen Cézannes from elsewhere) turned up last-April, apparently after some undercover ransoming by insurance companies, in an abandoned car in Marseille. Though it had escaped serious damage when the thieves pulled it from its frame, the painting needed a new canvas...
For the time being. St. Louisans may view Nagel's bonanza at the City Art Museum, where, because Cézanne painted it upside down in relation to the other portrait, it is being displayed in a flipover frame. Ironically, the long-hidden Cézanne will eventually disappear...