Word: paintbox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most of these things are mine," he said, pointing to the office decorations. "One of the Madagascar natives gave me that village scene after I gave her a paintbox and some brushes. I had some birds, too, carved in rosewood and mahogany--they burn that stuff for fuel over there, you know. I lost a lot of things coming over, though. You know that ship they sunk in the Suez; it had most of my work on it. But I'll add to what's here and later on I hope to exhibit some student work in this room--maybe...
Misery is Buffet's trademark; if there is joy in color, it stays locked in his paintbox, and when he paints a flower, it comes out a dried-up thistle. "It is part of us, our youth of the war years, our youth which cannot escape from the climate of the war," a critic exclaimed several years ago. Buffet, who prefers to go on in glum silence, once explained: "I was eleven when war broke out. The misery of the occupation, the cold, the lack of food, all this has become everyday life to me . . . Even today...
Jeers for Arnold. At Valley Forge, Peale got a chance to lay aside his powder horn for his paintbox. Using bedticking for canvas, he painted Lafayette, Washington, General Nathanael Greene and a host of other officers, turned out miniatures on ivory on the side. Once, when painting General Washington in 1777, Peale found himself eyewitnessing a high moment in history. An aide handed Washington a dispatch. After one glance, Washington for a moment lost his iron control, jubilantly shouted, "Burgoyne is taken," then quickly resumed his solemn pose...
...Oslo jeweler and an apprentice jeweler himself, Sather turned to art after he bought his young wife a paintbox for Christmas. "She never got it," he says. "I started in painting myself and found I couldn't stop." Sather went to art school and learned all he could, then embarked for Canada with his family. His reasons: "A Canadian consul in Norway told me this was a wonderful country. Besides, I hadn't been here before. If you walk on the same street too many times, you don't see anything...
Pleissner's artistic career was decided in 1916, when he was eleven and a friend gave him a paintbox "filled with all the colors in the world." After high school in his native Brooklyn, Pleissner spent four years studying figure painting and portraiture at Manhattan's Art Students League-and wishing he were out of doors. He has painted open-air pictures ever since. During World War II. Pleissner painted pictures of Aleutian bases for the Air Force and, later, of the Normandy breakthrough for LIFE, and developed the wanderlust that goads him today. Most of the watercolors...