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...LULA P. ROSSMASSLER New York City
...opening of Lula Cardoso Ayres' one-man show went off like a high-society ball, with all of Rio's granfinos present and newsreel cameras clicking. More important, handsome Lula Ayres was clearly the best Brazilian painter to come along since Candido Portinari. He had the sophistication of Rio's salons and the simplicity of the backwoods...
Rich, young (36) Lula Ayres had come by his knowledge of back-country work, play and superstition the hard way. At home in Recife, capital of Pernambuco, he had grown up like most of the pampered sons of rich sugar growers. He threw around his father's money, traveled in Europe, killed time with other playboys on Copacabana beach. A precocious talent made him a fashionable magazine illustrator before...
...depression dried up the Ayres fortune. Lula went to work on a sugar plantation, lived with Negro and mulatto field hands, learned their games and dances, studied their primitive art and pottery making. He remained with them after his father had rebuilt his fortune. When he came out of the sugar lands in 1944, there were few traces left of the fashionable illustrator. Ayres had acquired artistic size...
...eroded red soil with oxen, sold peaches to passengers on the Illinois Central's cars, wangled a job as a printer's devil. When he was 16 he left home, headed for the rich black Delta lands downriver, became a bookkeeper in a country store at Lula, Miss. In 1892, at 17, he went to Memphis...