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...world in the depressed '30s with a Manhattan exhibition of raw, shocking canvases (among them: American Justice, showing a half-naked, just-lynched prostitute against a background of quietly chatting Ku Klux Klansmen), over the years mellowed and developed a softer Japanese-like style in easel paintings, covers for TIME (travel, Christmas shopping), and in sweeping landscape murals, one of the best of which, a 40-ft. by 8-ft. scene of Boston Harbor, adorns the dining salon of the S.S. Independence; of a heart attack; in Morristown...
...lost his style. Already established as a figurative artist, he won a coveted Prix de Rome in 1949. but cut it short after three months and returned to the U.S. shattered and ill. After he recuperated, he painted a stark, disturbing study of a skeleton crucified on an easel...
...landscapists had not painted direct from nature except to make sketches. Their finished pictures were done in the studio-usually hoked-up historical scenes or "noble landscapes" that over the years had become more and more stagy and contrived. The elementary idea that an artist could set up his easel out of doors and produce a serious painting was new and radical in early 19th century France. "Barbizon artists," writes Herbert, "were the first to narrow the gap that had traditionally existed between the direct sketch and the finished studio picture...
Floating Studio. The oldest member of the new school was Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, who began painting landscapes-out of doors in 1822, when he was 26. A rover who toted his easel all over France, Italy and the Low Countries, he captured farmhouses, fishing villages, animals and people in muted colors of luminous clarity. He had a sense of structure that both Seurat and Cezanne admired, but he was more interested in the surface of nature than in its interior turbulence. His quiet scenes were sometimes a bit melancholy, sometimes vibrant with a profound...
...took over Germany, Pasternak tried to return to Russia, could not get in, went to England instead. He spent the war years as a sick and half-forgotten man, still hoping to go back to Russia, and died in Oxford in 1945 at the age of 83. On his easel was an unfinished portrait of Lenin, which he had been trying to do from memory...