Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twins born to Adam Emory Albright in 1897. Adam painted pictures as cheerful and innocent as Ivan's are gruesome. Adam named Ivan after the great landscape painter, Claude Lorraine, twin Malvin Marr after Carl Marr. Brother Lisle Murillo went into business, but Ivan and Malvin, used as models for the senior Albright's sentimental pictures of childhood, reacted by staying with art in a grim...
Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida is perhaps Painter Ivan Le Lorraine Albright's most monumental work. It has been shocking the staid since its first appearance eleven years ago. One Chicago critic saw the picture and headlined his review: "Horror Features Exhibit." The detailed enormity of Ida, with her fat, sagging, varicose-veined and slightly lavender flesh, is Albright's hallmark. Merry-minded artist of ultra-gloomy pictures, Ivan Albright of Warrenville, Ill. increased his reputation with one of last season's most shuddered-at paintings. That Which I Should Have Done...
...three live happily in Warrenville, where streets are named after them, not because of their renown as painters, but because Albright senior's real-estate ventures turned out O.K. In 1928 they bought an abandoned frame Methodist church where many of Ivan's shockers were created while Father Albright's portraits of children looked serenely...
...unprepossessing complexion, Ivan has said: "I don't know why I painted her that way -except that she looked as though she would get varicose veins later on." Nobody but Albright has ever commissioned Albright to do a portrait. "I just paint myself," he says, "and then I don't have to cut out the wrinkles...
...goodly company had assembled at the Soviet Embassy in Kensington Palace Gardens. Winston Churchill's Clemmie was there, ageless and bright-eyed, looking and listening for her husband. Sir Archibald Sinclair, Britain's Air Secretary, beamed at little Ivan Maisky, the Soviet Union's bearded Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, the most popular foreigner in England. Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, grim as always, and Air Marshal Sir William Sholto Douglas had come to acknowledge a Soviet tribute to the R.A.F...