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...profile,' Surgeon Michael -DeBakey objected when Painter Henry Koerner asked him to turn his head aside...
...told him he had an elegant profile," Koerner said, "and he would have to trust me as his patients trust him. He has a truly great face-those big eyebrows and that huge forehead...
...Koerner painted his subject for this week's cover in four sittings at the Texas Medical Center's Methodist Hospital in Houston. One sitting was abruptly halted when DeBakey was summoned to a nearby operating room to help revive a patient whose heart had stopped beating. In surgical gown and mask, Koerner also studied and sketched DeBakey while he was performing several operations. For the background, Koerner chose the overhead lamp of an operating room and an oscilloscope that monitors a patient's heart and pulse. "I learn something from every operation," DeBakey says...
Their styles are many, ranging from the perceptive realism of Boris Chaliapin, Bernard Safran and Robert Vickrey through the intricate design of Boris Artzybasheff and the impressionistic dash of Henry Koerner to the pop of Andy Warhol...
Both Norman and Buff Chandler were painted from life by Henry Koerner, who saw Buff as "a goddess hovering over the city" of Los Angeles. He posed her with a model of the new Los Angeles Music Center, used a rich blue cloth to hang in for the city's sky, and added his impressionistic view of Los Angeles at night from the window of his hotel room. When the portrait was nearly complete, Mr. Chandler took a look and found it a good likeness of Mrs. Chandler. Then, possibly thinking also of his own portrait, he told...