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...began to draw seriously when he was about 15, in the studio of his elder brother, a designer of stained glass windows. He won scholarships at the Royal Academy art schools, traveled in Italy, Germany and France. At the age of 23 he returned to London, set up his easel as a portrait painter...
Benton, in his murals and easel paintings, earnestly and almost ferociously strives to record a contemporary history of the U. S. A short wiry man with an unruly crop of black hair, he lives with his beauteous Italian wife and one small son in a picture-cluttered downtown Manhattan flat. To critics who have complained that his murals were loud and disturbing. Artist Benton answers: "They represent the U. S. which is also loud and not 'in good taste.' " "I have not found," he explains, "the U. S. a standardized mortuary and consequently have no sympathy with that school...
Patient on his haunches sat Nunsoe Duc de la Terrace of Blakeen until Etcher West tossed him a rubber mouse. To the mouse was attached a string which was attached to a curtain which was attached to an easel. Passionately the poodle pounced on the mouse, pulled the string, drew the curtain and unveiled a first proof of Etcher West's latest work: a portrait of Nunsoe Duc de la Terrace of Blakeen...
Andre Durenceau and Mrs. Kay Kaplan are partners in painting. He does the work she gets for him. Last week his latest picture and her latest commission arrived in Manhattan in the form of a 2 ft. by 3 ft. easel painting of the Crucifixion (see cut). The work was a present from Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney to his beauteous wife Gwladys...
...piece bathing suit and crepe-soled tennis shoes Artist Olsen slips into the water. A 65-pound metal helmet is placed over his head and shoulders, attached to an air pump on board ship. He goes down 20 to 35 ft., takes with him a Monel steel tripod, easel, and palette spread with regular oil colors. He paints on 8 by 10 in. glass plates covered on both sides with primed canvas...