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Primitives & Preferences. Among the English paintings in the Providence show were familiar Raeburn, Romney, Reynolds and Gainsborough portraits in the grand manner. Also on view were works by a famed trio of 18th Century New Englanders: John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, John Trumbull - all of whom were influenced by English styles. But the surprise of the show was a group of little-known early American portraits, sound and penetrating studies by men who followed no tradition, who painted people as they saw them...
...artist was known simply as McKay; he was a late-18th-Century itinerant painter whose Mrs. John Bush (see cut) was a clean, crackling portrait presenting the sitter with all the harsh candor of a snapshot. Another was Joseph Badger, Boston's outstanding portraitist from 1748 to 1758 (Copley superseded him). Badger's Mrs. John Edwards (see cut) made no attempt to impress anyone with the subject's elegance. Neither did Henry Gibbs (see cut), probably the work of one of the itinerant artists who traveled the countryside, sometimes carrying portraits prepainted except for faces...
...speak, as he cracked, "Why I feel so bad, the circles around my eyes have bags under them." Gay parties celebrated what, for most of us, is the last New Year's for quite a while. Out in Roslindale, some of the boys had quite a time. The Copley Square Officers' Club was the stamping ground for Fred Jennings and his Navy nurse, as well as Bob (please-call-me" Bob") Bisbe. Over an Arlington Street at the Club, were Kris Krismanich and Boo Lampher making merry--among others...
...date then entailed a fearsome food bill. Since there were plenty of men to go around, girls did not worry about their figures. Appetites were hearty--women heartless. The order of the day ran, "The way to a girl's heart is her stomach." The Copley, the Ritz, or, in a pinch, the Statler, was the only place to dine. And when a college girl went out, she went to dine...
Bill "the Super" Shney and Ed "the Red" Rinetti accompanied the above named "Lightfoot" to the Copley Plaza recently. Eddie says the results made his evening much more successful. That "Brown Boy." Jim Tillotson, had a big evening...