Word: jilt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Central Park. But the "failure" of his painting hopes never ceased to rankle. "Alas," the artist-inventor wrote to his friend Cooper, "the very name of pictures produces a sadness of heart I cannot describe. Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me. I did not abandon her; she abandoned me. I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was perhaps too exalted; I may say, is too exalted. I leave it to others more worthy to fill...