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...clock on the morning of her 70th birthday, Princess Wilhelmina, Queen of The Netherlands from 1898 to 1948, gathered together her paints and easel, silently left Het Loo palace to work on a half-finished landscape. Later in the day she joined Queen Juliana, Prince Bernhard and her four granddaughters for a quiet family party...
...what few artists west of New York have succeeded in achieving: supporting his wife and daughters (aged 14 and 16) by his painting. Now he spends his mornings working in his North Side studio, his afternoons prowling the Chicago streets in search of subjects. Setting up his easel on sidewalks or in alleyways, he is used to the curious onlookers that gather, once disposed of a bothersome crowd by filling a big brush with water, swinging it casually over his shoulder to spatter the kibitzers. On cold winter jaunts he protects his hands from the bitter Lake Michigan wind...
...modern turn to painting has set some 300,000 U.S. citizens to learning the pure and harmless pleasures of the brush and easel. Last week 228 of them were discovering the prouder joys of exhibition. The winners of a nationwide contest sponsored by Art News magazine, they had had their works hung in Manhattan's Riverside Museum for all the world to gawk and snicker...
...Things should look right," he says, and though he often speaks of having "spoiled" reams of watercolor paper, he is not above bragging a bit when he has translated nature well. Marin's humility before nature, his craftsmanship before his easel and his lonely pride before the world give his letters the tense, half-humorous, contradictory quality that is their main charm...
Handkerchiefs came out of purses and dabbed at eyes. Then one woman proposed a moment of silence; all the guests stood up. A few minutes later, weeping clubwomen clustered around an easel on which was displayed one of the last cartoons Helen Hokinson had drawn, a gift to the fund drive. The caption ("So Mary's working for the Community Chest too. How brave!") seemed an oddly suitable epitaph for Cartoonist Hokinson, who had died in the worst crash in U.S. airline history (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...