Word: caricaturist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though they might easily be insufferably cute, Wiinblad's figures are always redeemed by a caricaturist's humor and a painter's technical skill. Also in the show: textiles with Wiinblad faces that look like otherworld creatures peering from flying saucer portholes, and a collection of bright, bold posters (Wiinblad has done them for everybody from Danish music societies to the Marshall Plan). Standout poster: an exhortation to Danes to be musical ("Play Yourself"), showing a sprightly young lady playing a bow across strands of her hair, an almost perfect illustration of a famed T.S. Eliot line...
...occasional drink, meal or free flop from old friends. Despite his stubbled chin and unshorn hair, Max managed to preserve a certain courtly Southern dignity, and when the news of his death got around the Village this week, there was genuine sadness. At the San Remo Cafe, Caricaturist Jake Spencer smashed Bodenheim's personal gin glass and proposed a toast. "Max was a splendid type," he said. "He used to write poetry in a booth here and then try to peddle the verse at the bar for a drink...
...that he thought there were more Delanos in Chile than in the U.S. . . . One of his earliest sea-captain relatives once sailed into port in Chile, found the country at war, joined their navy and stayed to become a citizen." Best known of the dozen Delanos Mrs. Roosevelt met: Caricaturist Jorge ("Coke") Delano...
Irving Hoffman, Broadway columnist, caricaturist and character, once told him he looked as though he had slept well. Berlin frowned. "I did," he answered, "but I dreamed I didn...
...drift soon became permanent. Lyonel became a caricaturist, and though still living in Europe, he began drawing comic strips for the Chicago Tribune. He soon learned to hate deadlines, found that what he really wanted was to paint ("My contentment is founded on creative work"). He joined the Bauhaus group, and with Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky (TIME, March 24) became a top apostle of abstract art. "I have to destroy nature," he cried, "before I can build her up again." The architect he took as his model: Johann Sebastian Bach...