Word: easel
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Mickey Walker, welterweight-&-mid-dleweight -champion -turned-easel-painter, tried his luck as a Broadway actor. The show, Walk Hard, hit the canvas after seven performances. But critics found Walker "believable," applauded his "naturalness." His role: a prizefighter...
...Painter Albert Pinkham Ryder, whose somber fantasies went almost unnoticed until after he died in 1917, once remarked that "The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance...
Orozco, wintering in Manhattan (among other ambitions, he wants to "paint a snowfall"), boycotted both shows. Says he of the new Mexican easel painters: "The boys want to make money...
...that he has extended his work beyond the bounds of easel painting, Junyer's Manhattan studio looks more like a handyman's workshop than a painter's retreat. On a shelf rests his most prized possession, a scrapbook about the great Barcelona rugby team of 1924-25, amateur champions of Spain. He was scrum half...
...bold, hard, mechanistic abstraction hot off the easel of expatriate Frenchman Fernand Léger-The Great Julie, painted...