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...unbuffeted by the latest fuss or fashion, Painter James Chapin lives quietly on his New Jersey farm doing exactly as he wants. "As usual," he will say when asked. "I am painting people." His people may be famous or obscure, and may end up anywhere from the wall of a museum to the cover of TIME, but his work sets him apart as one of the finest veteran portraitists going. One of his best portraits made news last week when Amherst College announced that it had bought for its permanent collection his 1929 painting of Poet Robert Frost...
...twelve years before, and they took to each other-and to each other's work-at once. Frost, who was still poor and comparatively unknown, was delighted to have Chapin illustrate his volume of poems North of Boston. By 1929, fame had come to both men, and Frost was the pride of the Amherst faculty. That year Chapin went up to the college town to begin his portrait...
...took over a year to finish it: long before brush was put to canvas, he did sketch after sketch of Frost's hands, his head, his posture. "I can't explain it very well," Chapin once said, "but it is the symbolic human gesture that interests me -not the gesture of hands and feet but the carriage of the human body and the human head." Here, the carriage is erect, proud, quietly intense, with wisdom coiled inside like a spring...
...second husband, Prince Stanislas Radziwill, a Polish nobleman turned London businessman) lived according to a social pattern as undeviating as a cotillion. Winters were spent in a Park Avenue apartment (where Black Jack indulgently permitted Jackie to keep a pet rabbit in the bathtub) while Jackie attended fashionable Chapin School. At six, Jackie had her own pony, by twelve she was riding in horse shows, and her love of horses is abiding. As Jackie and Lee grew older, they met their beaux under the Biltmore clock, fox-trotted through subscription dances at the Plaza and St. Regis with a beardless...
...Jackie Bouvier, the locale changed after the divorce, but the routine was much the same: Holton-Arms, a blue-chip girls' school in Washington, replaced Chapin, and the gilded summers in East Hampton gave way to the 75-acre waterfront Auchincloss estate in Newport, R.I. If anything, life was more mutedly elegant than before: Merrywood, the Auchincloss chateau in suburban Virginia, is rich with taste and culture: soft-spoken butlers pad across the wine-colored carpets; mellow, morocco-bound classics line the walls; and television is relegated to a tiny recess on one side of the vast fireplace. While...