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Died. Jon Corbino, 59, U.S. painter, a Sicilian-born romantic realist who specialized in turbulent canvases of full-blown nudes and writhing horses caught in shipwrecks and floods, scoffing at abstract artists for their attempt "to achieve a literature with a language none but they understand"; of cancer; in Sarasota...
Other prizes ranged from typical Max Weber still life, Colonial Table (second prize) to one of Ivan LeLorraine Albright's painfully detailed studies of decay. Where-Fore Now Ariseth the Illusion of a Third Dimension, an also-ran. Sure eye-catchers were two robust paintings of fishermen -Jon Corbino's moody, swirling Fog, which caught a moment of mist-bound helplessness at sea, and Zolton Sepeshy's briny fifth prize, Fisherman's Morning, full of the smells of a Lake Michigan fish pier...
...Oldster Royal Cortissoz of the New York Herald Tribune, the flatly conservative dean of U.S. newspaper art critics, offered Cincinnati a charming, flowing figure-piece: Jon Corbino's The Family. Connoisseur Cortissoz, erstwhile art crony of the J. P. Morgans, father & son, will tolerate no such modernistic nonsense as distorted proportions and experiments with the abstract. CJ Calm, fortyish Dorothy Adlow of the Christian Science Monitor picked a gaunt, naked vision, Ezekiel, a Biblical allegory (Ezekiel 37:3-Son of man, can these bones live?), by 29-year-old Bostonian Nathaniel Jacobson...
When, five years ago, Manhattan's Macbeth Gallery gave him his first big metropolitan one-man show, critics were surprised by such old-worldly gusto in a young U.S. painter. But they had to admit that Jon Corbino was not afraid of big subjects, and that he was one of the soundest draftsmen...
...primarily a portraitist, Corbino concentrates on the sweeping gestures and bodily movements of the men, women and horses that he paints. Attendant weakness of Painter Corbino's work is that his classically muscular people and horses lack individuality, look very much alike. Though he belongs to a generation of revolutionary painters, Painter Corbino snorts scornfully at modern...