Word: eilshemius
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...called himself the "world's master artist." He wrote that he was the "Most Original-Most Prolific-Most Versatile," tbat he was, in fact, "UNIQUE." In one respect, Louis M. Eilshemius was. Though many artists have had their periods of vogue and obscurity, the ups and downs of Eilshemius have been the steepest...
...then lionized, and then ignored again. Since his death at 77 in a psychopathic ward in Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, interest in him has several times waxed and waned. Last week Manhattan's Balin-Traube Gallery, displaying 36 of his works, posed the question again: What is Eilshemius' place in American...
...come from reality. He painted innumerable nudes in all sorts of settings, and they all look as if he had made up the anatomy as he went along; sometimes they swirl about like leaves in the wind. Beach scenes, forests, Biblical stories, murders and imaginary wars poured from Eilshemius' brush -some repugnant, some enormously appealing, like the man himself...
...simple, naturalistic scene showing a young boy poised to dive off the shoulders of another. George Fuller of Deerfield, Mass. painted a pale Arethusa that might have been a model for the white-robed girl in the old White Rock ads. Yet Fuller's younger contemporary, Louis Eilshemius, a sad-eyed man who called himself "Supreme Spirit of the Spheres," could produce an enormously imaginative Afternoon Wind composed of wispy figures being whisked through the air like leaves swirling in a breeze...
...Though Eilshemius failed to land on his island, he did at least paint some disturbing pictures of it, and they live...