Word: paint
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THUS wrote James Fenimore Cooper of the Marquis de Lafayette, shortly after the portrait opposite was painted. Cooper's words give some idea of the size of the task that faced Samuel Finley Breese Morse when he came to paint the portrait in 1826. Morse painted the picture just after his wife died, and he apologized later: "A picture painted under such circumstances can scarcely be expected to do the artist justice, and, as a work of art, I cannot praise...
Abandoned Principle. On graduation, Morse decided that the one thing he really wanted to do was to paint. He was apprenticed to the great expatriate, Benjamin West, in London, and four years later came home an accomplished academician with an art that was as cool as its reception. For many years Artist Morse had a hard time making ends meet. So at 41 he abandoned his father's principle of attending to one thing at a time to resume tinkering with electricity. The principle of the telegraph was in his head. After a decade of tinkering Morse achieved what...
...Loomis School in Windsor, Conn., Eliot learned to draw and paint, trying style after style. At Black Mountain College he was influenced by Abstractionist Josef Albers; later, at the Boston Museum School, he turned more conservative. At 21, after
Skid proof Streets. Roads and driveways can be skidproofed with a liquid resin binder developed by Shell Chemical Corp. and Reliance Products Co. Relcote is applied like any enamel paint, also protects roadbed from freezing, thawing and salts. Cost: $2.50 to $8.00 per sq. yd., depending on road surfaces...
Junior Painters. A complete kit for children to repaint their own toys or wooden furniture has been put on sale by Ampruf Paint Co. of New Jersey. Kit contains three small cans of nontoxic, quick-drying paint, brush and cleaner, painter's cap and gloves, sandpaper and mixing paddle. Cost...