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Heroic subjects are not fashionable among U.S. artists. But exuberant Jon Corbino, who this week opened an exhibition of turbulent canvases on Manhattan's 57th Street, loves to paint conflicts and catastrophes, swarming canvases in which full-blown nudes and horses writhe and rear in the throes of floods, shipwrecks, stampedes. And gallery-goers like his smoldering color and sweeping draftsmanship, which make the most innocent New England landscape seethe with dramatic struggle...
...Corbino, born in Sicily 37 years ago, was brought to the U.S. as a child of eight, reared in Manhattan's lower East Side. What Painter Corbino learned of the Renaissance and Romantic painters of Europe, to whom he is often compared, he got entirely from U.S. museums and reproductions. He worked his way through Manhattan's Art Students League and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts taking jobs as a dishwasher, cook and soda jerker, kept on painting in his own way, modeled his methods not on the French Impressionists or the U.S. Realists, but upon...
...Rockport, Mass., where most artists have studios on Bearskin Neck-and the local art association has been embroiled year after year with city fathers over the annual artists ball - the 18th annual show was lively, colorful, included work by Jon Corbino, Leon Kroll, Harrison Cady, better known for his illustrations for Peter Rabbit stories...
...very highest standards. However, by the testimony of many prominent educators, the prints in general meet well the purpose for which they were intended and some, at least, are of really fine quality. If any further evidence of this is needed, such artists as Rockwell Kent, Jon Corbino and Thomas Benton have expressed themselves as pleased with the reproductions of their own paintings. Mr. Benton, in fact, used our copies of his pictures for his own Christmas presents...
...smart innovation by Jury Chairman James Chapin was the grouping in separate galleries of conventional commissioned portraits and of the paintings submitted by jury members and faculty members. Notable among the 308 paintings displayed were Bathers' Picnic, a group of big, pink women in breezy undress by Jon Corbino; Sheldon Street, a Utrillo-like landscape by Francis Speight; The Mirage, an industrial waterfront with wild smoke reflections by Ernest Fiene; Charlie Ervine, a Maine portrait by Andrew Wyeth (TIME, Nov. 15). Awards: for the best picture painted in oil, to Eugene Speicher for Marianna; for the best portrait...