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Now 54, Kuniyoshi looks rather like a prematurely aged Japanese schoolboy. He wears horn-rimmed glasses and a porkpie hat, smokes a pipe, and says he has "no time" for golf any more. He is too busy working, nine hours a day, on the sorts of pictures that fill most...
Ruin on the Table. His still lifes at the Whitney might each have been assembled from a ruin and tied together with string -pipes, masks, torn letters, weather vanes and carnival prizes teetering on Victorian tables. Kuniyoshi's figure paintings all show the same girl (who resembles none of...
The $1,500 first prize went to thin-faced Zoltan Sepeshy, who at 49 is one of the world's best tempera technicians. His realistic landscapes, figure paintings and still lifes incline to be dull in color, but they have space, weight and solidity. And Sepeshy can reproduce the...
All agreed that the master was a new man again-even if some didn't like the new Picasso any more than they liked the last one. His mangled women and monsters of the war years had vanished like a nightmare. The nine new paintings were bright still lifes...
Humanized Mechanization. The only U.S. artist to rival Peale's mastery of still life was an Irishman named William M. Harnett. As sickly as Peale, Harnett was also dirt-poor to start with, took to painting still lifes because he could not afford live models. He made his dead...