Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever Sadakichi was when he began, by the late '30s and early '40s he was a prince of moochers and a court jester to an aging band of once rollicking Hollywood musketeers who met irregularly in the studio of West Coast Painter John Decker. Barrymore. Fields, Decker and Sadakichi each had one foot in the grave and one hand on the bottle. In the guise of Sadakichi's biographer. Fowler drops many a footnote to their bibulous, gay-gallant last stand in his sprightly Minutes of the Last Meeting...
Good Tucker. Last week Painter Namatjira was back in his simple wooden house in Hermannsburg after his first trip to eastern Australia. Albert made the 1,200-mile journey to Canberra in response to a gold-crested invitation to meet his sovereign. Queen Elizabeth II. After being presented to the Queen, he attended a lavish state ball where the tables groaned with caviar and pheasant. Commented Albert, who still eats honey ants at home: "Good tucker...
Spanish-born Xavier Gonzalez is one painter who frankly admits that he takes his ideas where he finds them. "I am a blotter," says he. "I have no scruples about stealing wherever I can and adapting what I have taken to my own expression." As a result, Gonzalez has gone in for about every kind of artistic approach that has been invented: impressionism, expressionism, abstractionism, realism, surrealism. Last week at Cleveland's Western Reserve University, where he is now teaching, Gonzalez proved his versatility with an exhibition of the best of his work of the last ten years...
...apple of McIver's parental eye is Stevie Holt, a melancholy young painter patient with one suicide attempt behind him. The curing of Stevie is also a pet project of a thirtyish war widow on McIver's staff who sees eye to eye with him on therapeutic methods. Together with the "patients' governing committee," McIver and the widow concoct a plan for Stevie to design new draperies for the sanitarium living room. Unknown to McIver, both Karen and the sanitarium's old biddy of a business manager have ordered separate sets of draperies on their...
...work. The Daily Telegraph hailed him as "an ill-starred artist of genius." The Daily Mail reported that Dumont's pictures had burst "on artistic London with the blazing suddenness of a spectacular fireworks display," and even the staid Times noted: "He was certainly a strong painter . . . Perhaps the real reason [why he was forgotten] was that in an age of formidable individualism, he never developed a highly personal and clearly distinguishable style...