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...balmy June day. Karfiol's nudes, flowers and landscapes all had the same warmth and freshness of tone, the same softness of outline and the same idyllic mood. The dreamy passivity of Karnol's paintings made a startling contrast to the hard energy of John Marin's (see below...
...first U.S. painters to go to Paris. "They were just tearing down the exposition buildings of 1900," he says. "There were no automobiles then and you could buy a Chateaubriand for 30 centimes. I remember Leo and Gertrude Stein, Picasso, Matisse, Alfy Maurer, Weber, Pascin, and John Marin, too. I used to think Marin was an Italian model: he never said a word, never fitted in with our crowd at the Cafe de Dome...
Such salty notions, freely expressed and frequently contradicted, have made Painter John Marin's letters a constant delight to his friends. Edited and put between covers, a selection of the letters and of his rather less coherent essays was on sale in U.S. bookstores last week (The Selected Writings of John Marin; Pellegrini & Cudahy; $7.50). Its publication marked the 79th birthday of one of the U.S.'s foremost artists, who has again & again been called "great...
Puerto Rico's historic capital of San Juan busily prepared for a fiesta. At Governor Muñoz Marin's mansion, servants made ready for a party, washing the fine crystal, putting a high polish on the silverware. On traffic-jammed Ponce de León Avenue stood a huge welcome sign: Bien-venidos. In the plaza, the excited chatter was all about the opening this week of Puerto Rico's finest hotel, which islanders hope will be a rich new source of revenue and prestige for their economy...
Somber-eyed Luis Muñoz Marin arrived in Manhattan last week on his first visit to the U.S. mainland since his inauguration as Puerto Rico's first elected governor. With his handsome wife and two dark-eyed daughters, he went to the Hotel Plaza, where he had no sooner checked in than he headed for the kitchen. "New York kitchens," he explained, "are always full of Puerto Ricans. They make the salads, cut the meat, wash the dishes." The Plaza's kitchen help were appropriately enthusiastic; several elderly women fell on Muñoz' neck...