Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Painter-and builder-brilliant as any, But I feel I could lay bricks almost as well, And perhaps without dropping so many...
...smile, were released at the White House. The work, which hangs in the President's living quarters, was painted last year by Manhattan Artist Thomas E. Stephens (no kin but an old Greenwich Village friend of White House Appointments Secretary Thomas E. Stephens). Artist Stephens has coached Amateur Painter Dwight Eisenhower, also painted him, his mother, father and several of Ike's friends...
...Painter Rand started a portrait of Teddy Roosevelt but had to give it up. "It was ridiculous," she recalled. "He couldn't sit still-especially with children going in and out of the studio with snakes and spiders." Later, Franklin D. Roosevelt was almost as difficult. She tried him first at Hyde Park in a room where 25 newsmen were interviewing the President. The second time, she painted the President in her Manhattan studio-from sketches. It was a gay portrait, showing the famous F.D.R. smile, and as soon as he saw it, F.D.R. himself ordered the smile...
Young (21) Painter Cuevas strayed only as far as the insane asylum, the charity hospital and the slums. With an economy of fuzzy line, scratched on paper with almost hairless brushes, he powerfully portrayed the hunched reticence of schizophrenia, the hauteur of megalomania, the stares of poverty and disease. His show of 43 ink drawings and watercolors at Washington's Pan American Union caused one old lady to ask: "How can you be so young and so morbid?" To this often repeated question, Cuevas replies flatly: "My interest in the dying and the insane is my vision of modern...
...Painter Cuevas, present at his show, was not as excited about Washington as Washington was about him. He found the city too orderly and antiseptic for inspiration. But Cuevas managed to escape, spent some time at St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the mentally ill, sketching...