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...would be interesting to know what Caricaturist Kelen [Oct. 4] sees in his own physiognomy. Has he ever been asked...
...potatoes"; Franklin D. Roosevelt was "a fox grafted onto a lion" who "used his jaw as men use hands and elephants use trunks." If the descriptions sound like notes for a cartoon to be drawn later, there is good reason. The words belong to Emery Kelen, a Hungarian-born caricaturist who has spent most of his life studying faces for some clue to the inner man. Along with Kelen's deft pen portraits, his incisive word pictures appear in his book, Peace in Their Time (Knopf...
...Caricaturist Kelen came to the U.S. in 1938 with his partner Derso. In former years the pair appeared in the old New York World, the Christian Science Monitor and other publications; Kelen still draws for a number of European papers. He and Derso have published a number of sketchbooks, including one on the 1945 conference that gave birth to the U.N. at the San Francisco Opera House; Harry Truman was portrayed as Lohengrin (see cut). In 1957 Kelen retired after nine years as television director of the United Nations, a post that hardly taxed the graphic powers he had trained...
Lyonel Feininger is so well known for his prismatic paintings of land, sea and city scenes that his earlier career as a major caricaturist is all but forgotten. Though born in the U.S. and always a U.S. citizen, he went to Berlin in 1894, started working for German newspapers, made himself Germany's foremost cartoonist. He had a gift for whimsy and fantasy that stayed with him right up to 1956, when he died at 84. The gift is charmingly displayed in a new show called "The Intimate World of Lyonel Feininger," at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
Died. Ludwig Bemelmans. 64, bubbly, urbane caricaturist whose lighthearted paintings and gently satirical books delighted adults and children alike; of cancer of the pancreas; in Manhattan. Son of a Belgian painter and a Bavarian brewer's daughter. Bemelmans worked as a hotel waiter, opened his own restaurant, became a bon vivant and peopled his books and canvases with epileptic Ecuadorian generals, French jewel thieves. American ladies in feather boas, and a Parisian moppet named Madeline. "The purpose of art," he once said, "is to console and amuse-myself, and, I hope, others...