Word: jon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heroic subjects are not fashionable among U.S. artists. But exuberant Jon Corbino, who this week opened an exhibition of turbulent canvases on Manhattan's 57th Street, loves to paint conflicts and catastrophes, swarming canvases in which full-blown nudes and horses writhe and rear in the throes of floods, shipwrecks, stampedes. And gallery-goers like his smoldering color and sweeping draftsmanship, which make the most innocent New England landscape seethe with dramatic struggle...
When, five years ago, Manhattan's Macbeth Gallery gave him his first big metropolitan one-man show, critics were surprised by such old-worldly gusto in a young U.S. painter. But they had to admit that Jon Corbino was not afraid of big subjects, and that he was one of the soundest draftsmen...
...Army and this picture tells why. Fortunately she sings only one song and, just for variety, has two people to make love at. One, the young chief to whom she is betrothed and who has just returned from Harvard (Harvard) to become chief of the islanders, is played by Jon Hall, rather dashingly, but not subtly. The other is the villain who covets Hall's throne as well as his betrothed. After an education in this institution, Hall finds life among his people a little perplexing and a lot more virile than he had become accustomed to, However, he thrashes...
Divorced. By Cinemactress Mary Brian, 33: Artist Jon Whitcomb, 34, painter of pretty girls; in Carson City, Nev. They married in May, parted in June...
...Good for Jon" Sirs: Good for Jon Cantelli and his defense of Italians [for their intelligence in running away from a war they dislike and disapprove -TIME, Dec. 23]. It isn't so long ago that most Americans liked men who hated fighting...