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While a guest sits comfortably in an easy chair sipping a drink, the open door of the secretary's office, lighted with artificial daylight, serves as a stage. At Dr. Souchon's command a Negro servant places one picture at a time on a big easel, leaves it there until an imperious click from a mechanical cricket in the doctor's hand signals for its removal. Meanwhile Dr. Souchon's secretary takes down in shorthand even the most irresponsible remarks the visitor makes. Painter Souchon, who enjoys showing his pictures almost as much as he does...
...Marxist revolutionary murals on which Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros rode to fame has pretty well petered out today, but the art of easel painting is running full blast. A flourishing group of some 40 able painters, including Abstractionists Carlos Orozco Romero and Carlos Merida, splashily realistic Jesus Guerrero Galvan and Federico Cantu, are beginning to be known in the U. S. Among the new ones touted by Critic Helm are Antonio Ruiz, who paints street scenes in a Covarrubias-like style, and 21-year-old Guillermo Meza, who took up painting be cause he didn't have enough money...
...daughter, at once became chief icon of the past decade's resurgent move to "paint American." His Daughters of Revolution (1932), three prim, grim, self-important matrons, scandalized the D. A. R. Lately Artist Wood has spent more time teaching and making lithographs than he has at his easel...
...eccentricities (he once proposed marriage to a neighbor the first time he met her because he liked the tone of her violin), his essentially happy life, spent doing what he most wanted to do. "The artist," Ryder once said, "needs but a roof, a crust of bread and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance...
...composition. Their frescoes are in the standard historical vein, grey and red their predominant colors. Contemporary, unlike their murals, are their canvases now on show at the New York and San Francisco World Fairs. But, says Eddie Millman: "In murals alone can art reach the large masses of people. . . . Easel paintings are too personal, too limited in appeal. . . . Painting, to be really functional, must be taken from small exclusive groups and thrown open to everyone...