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What about John L. Lewis? Indiana's Senator Homer E. Capehart wanted to know. Had everybody forgotten him? It was getting close to March 31, which is the deadline on coal contracts. When would negotiations start between Lewis and the mine owners? When would the mines be returned to private ownership? The Senator wrote Lewis and Interior Secretary Krug...
Born & bred in Boston, the self-taught son of a hardware dealer, Homer sold his first drawings to Harper's Weekly at 21, went on to become a crack pictorial reporter of the Civil War and to record postwar life in the U.S. from New England farmyards to fashionable Long Branch, N. J. But he found his best subjects, and painted best, in solitude...
...Homer turned his narrow back on the world, to spend his remaining 26 years alone in a storm-racked house on the Maine coast. "The Sun will not rise, or set," he wrote contentedly to a friend, "without my notice, and thanks." His thanks were fathoms-deep seascapes and the flashing watercolors-mostly painted on hunting trips into the north woods and winter excursions to the Bahamas-on which his fame now rests...
...York Sun's Critic Henry McBride came away from last week's show convinced that Homer "is our best man, the one who puts most into pictures of that which Americans have got out of life . . . believe me it is a show. Attendance at it should be made compulsory by law. It would strengthen the country...
Unlike outdoorish Winslow Homer (see above), Rouault has always looked inward, to paint the medieval hells and heavens exploding within the high dome of his skull. Rouault was born in violence when a shell blasted his mother out of bed during the bombardment of Paris in 1871. At 14 he went to work in a stained-glass factory, where he earned a dollar a week and developed his unique inner climate-as sharp and glowing, to judge by his art, as glass...