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Around 1824, Porter turned to mural painting. For him, painting was not art but craft, and his murals were the common man's answer to the costly, imported French wallpapers that adorned fashionable American homes. Characteristically, Porter shared the secret of his paint-mixing techniques with the public by publishing instructions and recipe booklets: "Dissolve half a pound of glue in a gallon of water, and with this sizing mix whatever colors may be required for the work." Foliage could be stippled on with corks and sponges; bark was suggested by "giving a tremulous motion to the brush...
Crackpot and Eccentric. By the 1840s, Porter's urge to paint was waning, and journalism caught his grasshopperish interest. In 1845, while working as an electroplater in New York, he launched the Scientific American, mainly to have a showcase for his ideas. He served as editor, wrote most of the early articles, and liberally sprinkled the magazine with the Rube Goldberg-esque diagrams that he made for his machines. But within a year of its founding, he sold it. He had an idea for a rifle with a revolving chamber and foolishly sold it to Samuel Colt of Hartford...
...This enables us to use small earthquakes to paint in the boundaries of the blocks of the earth that are moving," says Menlo Park's Jack Healy. Scientists are also studying the minute tilting of the ground that may precede quakes and the slow fault "creep" of those parts of the San Andreas that are moving freely. They are measuring the minute warping of rock along "locked" areas, changes that reflect the gigantic, subterranean forces urging that part of California west of the fault to move toward Alaska. In addition, the electrical and magnetic properties of rocks have been...
...better than Fitz Hugh Lane. His ancestors were among the first to settle in the famous fishing port of Gloucester, Mass., where Lane was born in 1804. Partially paralyzed by a childhood illness, he relied on friends to row him out into the harbor where he could sketch and paint, seeking to grasp the precise feeling of the time of day and the weather in New England. An 1848 harbor scene, The Fort and Ten Pound Island, Gloucester, typifies Lane's airy style. The exactitude of his portrayal of the bustling seaport-the clutter of logs, cut boards...
Jane Wade, one of the pioneer American-born private dealers, started out as a secretary to the late Curt Valentin, one of New York's most successful public dealers. "Do you paint?" asked Valentin when he interviewed her. "No." "Then you're hired." She soon was much more than a secretary, working with Valentin's artists-Calder, Lipchitz, Moore, Arp-on their shows. She became vice president of Marlborough-Gerson Gallery before going into business for herself. In judging the value of a painting or sculpture, she never seeks other opinions, relies exclusively on her own years...