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AUSTRALIAN artist William Dobell, 61, a man of gentle manner but with an incisive painter's eye-as his April 4, 1960 cover of Australia's Prime Minister Menzies showed-likes to capture his subject's character in a way that a photograph cannot. He feared that...
It was Dobell's first visit to South Viet Nam, and among the many quick expressions recorded in his sketchbook is the river scene. Oriental in its simplicity and delicacy, reproduced below.
Your feature confirms that our leading statesman, Menzies, is of world stature; your cover shows that our leading portrait painter, Dobell, does not make the grade.
Dobell's portrait of Mr. Menzies is a hideous physiognomical distortion. However, TIME'S writers were as flattering with their pen pictures of our P.M. as Australia's Dobell was awry with his brushwork.
We knew that there would be great interest in TIME's Menzies cover and story, but we never anticipated the splash it caused. Ever since the magazine hit the stands, TIME and Dobell have been Topic A in Australia.