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Yale's English-born Roland H. Bainton, 68, a Congregationalist minister and professor of church history, was once described as "part Puck, part St. Francis, with a mixture of Erasmus." A caricaturist who likes to whip off sketches of Reinhold Niebuhr or Paul Tillich, he is also an indefatigable bicyclist whose latest two-wheeler boasts 18 gears. Few other Yale divines have done so much to spread the word in human tones. In 42 years at Yale, Bainton published 19 books (total sales: 1,500,000), notably Church of Our Fathers and Here I Stand, probably the most readable...
This week Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art opens a lively exhibition called "Rowlandson's England," consisting of more than 100 drawings, prints, illustrations and watercolors by Rowlandson and his contemporaries. Though he did not make himself out to be more than a cartoonist and a caricaturist, Rowlandson was in fact an artist who caught the moods and madnesses of his time better than any other. As A. Hyatt Mayor, the Met's curator of prints, says of the show: "When we try to imagine England in the early 18th century, we see it through Hogarth. When...
...unbearable to Gropper: "I need to find the human element the way I need to find a friend." Strangely, after the long reign of the abstractionists, Cropper's work looks not like a set of period pieces but like something almost new. In him, the cartoonist, the caricaturist and the artist are jumbled up together, and sometimes the cartoonist overrides the artist...
PORTRAIT OF MAX, by S. N. Behrman. British Perfectionist Max Beerbohm, novelist, drama critic, cheerfully malicious caricaturist, let the 20th century wash past him during more than four decades of retirement in Italy. Edwardian dandy to the end, coolly satisfied with his own limitations and common-sensibly appalled by people who did not recognize theirs, he delighted in civilized talk of the kind that Playwright Behrman expertly caught...
...both his life and his art he was the epitome of contentment. In failure he did not sulk; in success he was happy to use his wealth to help out his friends, including the caricaturist Daumier, who -impoverished and nearly blind-was about to be evicted from his cottage. Corot bought another cottage for Daumier and sent along a tongue-in-cheek explanation: "It is not for you I do this; it is merely to annoy your landlord...