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...sold him a bad painting of a clipper ship and it disturbed him. He tinkered with it. After six months he had changed it into a steamboat. Then he saw a movie, The Moon and Sixpence-Somerset Maugham's story about Paul Gauguin. Next day Mickey bought an easel, a palette and a fistful of brushes...
Enrico Caruso remained a highly informal character. Once when Lillian Nordica was about to lift her voice in a love duet with him, he deposited a hot potato in her hand. In Tosca, when Antonio Scotti stooped to pick up the paint brush beneath Cavaradossi's easel, he had to yank at it for minutes-Caruso had nailed it to the floor. Caruso's most celebrated peccadillo led to his arrest on the complaint of a Mrs. Hannah Graham who had run into him at the Central Park Zoo and testified breathlessly: "He insulted me. He brushed against...
...other Alexander Brook, magazines lost decided that interest, the and war one was art not his subject and returned to a home-front easel...
...ever shown while the war was still being fought hung in Washington's huge, windowless, marble National Gallery. The 125 paintings, later to tour the country, were part of a large-scale venture unique in unofficial war recording: since before Pearl Harbor, LIFE has been sending artists-all easel painters of standing-to camps, to war fronts and to sea as accredited war correspondents. Their pictures will eventually be given to the Government, to be housed in some future museum...
...North Africa's snow-smeared Atlas mountains, Winston Churchill relaxed with easel and paints for a day at his favorite hobby, landscape painting. Then he bade good-by to his good friend Franklin Roosevelt and headed eastward for Turkey...