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...Censorship," cried Rivera. He threatened not to let any of his easel paintings go to Paris either...
...dealers know, too many picture buyers are looking for paintings that will "go with the living room drapes." That gave Dealer Reeves Lewenthal an idea: Why not get easel painters to design fabrics as well as paint pictures? "After all," he argued, "Michelangelo designed the costumes for the papal guards...
...portraits, the photographers can catch as much as the easel men do nowadays, and Steichen groups four of them together in a single panel to show the camera's range: Sweden's Gustav V ("the simple dignity of a democratic king"), Jersey City's Hague ("the arrogant power of a mayor"), Britain's Attlee ("the bewilderment of a politician"), and U.S. Technologist Vannevar Bush ("the serenity of a distinguished scientist...
...Museum of Modern Art's big fall show was a retrospective exhibit of 145 works of Henri Matisse. Matisse milestones such as the handsomely detailed Red Studio showed what can be done with bold colors, sprawling canvases and abstract designs when a master is at the easel...
Flannery grew up in a house where an easel and the American Stud Book were both handy. His father, a Kentuckian, remembered his son's birth as the year when Plaudit won the Kentucky Derby (1898). Flannery's mother, an amateur painter, encouraged him to study art. But young Vaughn decided that he wanted to make money. When he had enough of it, he moved his wife and two children to his 307-acre Maryland farm. He runs a profitable "nursery" business, boarding brood mares about to foal. "What's more," says Artist Flannery...