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...inspired the painters' nature worship: James Fenimore Cooper, Emerson, Thoreau, John Greenleaf Whittier and William Cullen Bryant ("Go forth, under the open sky, and list to Nature's teachings"). Painter Thomas Cole listened closely to the exhortations of his friend Bryant, trudged up the Hudson River with easel and umbrella to paint the wild Catskills, and founded the so-called Hudson River school of like-minded artists...
...hospital and headed for parts unknown. Searching for an explanation of his illness, Mexicans could not but be struck by the daily newspaper photos showing Maria whooping it up with younger beaux. A visitor to Rivera's deserted studio found it barren as December. On his easel stood an unfinished portrait of Maria, the second he has painted (the first: a startling full-length study in a diaphanous gown). Beside the easel reposed a photograph of mercurial Vlaria, her eyes daring and teasing; flanking her taunting image drooped two wilted bouquets...
...Vacationing in Sicily, and waiting for unseasonable rains and chilly winds to end so that he could venture out with his paintbrushes and easel, Britain's retired Prime Minister. Sir Winston Churchill, holed up in his hotel suite, busied himself with revisions of his forthcoming History of the English-Speaking Peoples, which he wrote before World War II, found little time to edit till now. He made a sensa tional dinner appearance one evening in a red siren suit and slippers to match, jollied the hotel into swallowing its "Sunny Sicily" slogans and turning on its central heating...
...artistic "house"' of Breton's poem. There are a stone terrace built by Tanguy (a do-ityourself fan), a pond with decoy ducks, and a rowboat for "harvesting the bull-rushes." Artist Tanguy works in a made-over barn. As he describes it, he simply stands before his easel and begins to paint?without plan, without thought of what he is doing. Says he: "I am still the prisoner of my skin while I am painting, but otherwise I am free...
What the four had in common was honesty and joy in life. Otherwise, they were as different as artists can be. Albert Pinkham Ryder best expressed their common joy when he remarked that "the artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance." Thomas Eakins expressed their straightforwardness while teaching at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. For insisting on using nude models in class, he was forced to resign. (Later, in one of his most famed paintings of a nude-overleaf-Eakins soberly included the chaperone...