Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just one painting held the crowd momentarily. Ivan Le Lorraine Albright's pustulant portrait of Dorian Gray, painted for MGM's movie of Oscar Wilde's novel, stared arrestingly from under a strong spotlight. To keep calloused fingers off moldering Dorian, he was surrounded by a low grey fence. Blurted one housewife, after minutes of careful study: "Anyway, you can tell he's English." The man who painted the sorry sight had also contributed a lithographic Self Portrait (which won $50). It was better-dressed but no better-fleshed than Dorian. "That fellow," confided one bemused...
Born. To Josephine Medill Patterson Reeve Albright, 33, tiger-shooting, deep-sea-fishing, airplane-flying, labor unioneer (Newspaper Guild) daughter of the late publisher of the New York Daily News; and Artist Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, 50, whose specialty is such uncomfortably detailed pictures of decay as Into The World There Came A Soul Called Ida and the Dorian Gray he painted for MGM: a son, their first child (she had two by her previous marriage); in Chicago. Name: Adam. Weight...
Portrait In Black (by Ivan Goff & Ben Roberts; produced by David Lowe & Edgar F. Luckenbach) quickly lets the audience know that the San Francisco shipping magnate, Matt Talbot, didn't die the natural death people supposed he did: he was done in by his wife and her lover (Claire Luce* and Donald Cook). Then it quickly lets the murderers know, by means of a taunting anonymous letter, that they aren't quite getting away with it: someone is hep to their deed...
...titles that painters put on their pictures often make no more sense than the paintings themselves-and frequently seem to have nothing to do with the case. A gleaming, mackerel-in-the-moonlight exception is Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, who called his painting of a varicose-veined slattern Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida, and underlined his intricate picture of a moldering mortuary door That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (TIME...
...indeed refreshing to read the frank and factful letter by Ivan Freely [TIME, April 14] anent "bad conduct" discharges from the Armed Forces...