Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Painter Chapin got fed up with Greenwich Village and outgrew his own imitations of Cezanne. He found a $4-a-month log cabin in northern New Jersey, holed in there for five decisive years. Chapin emerged from the hills with portraits, as sharp and solid as plowshares, of the hard-bitten farm people among whom he had lived. Shortly after his return, in Manhattan, Chapin happened to see a young Negro girl named Ruby Green singing in the Hall Johnson Choir and did her portrait (as Ruby Greene-absent-minded Painter Chapin misspelled her name-she now has a small...
Next morning, Sultan Arafa assembled his courtiers and red-uniformed horse guards, mounted a noble white charger inherited from the deposed Sultan and started out for Sabbath prayers at the imperial mosque. Somebody was waiting for him. A young (28), high-strung house painter named Allal ben Abdallah had piloted his creaky model-A Ford through the crowds waiting to view the Sultan and parked it close to a wall of the mosque...
...Painter Eyuboglu spent three student years in Paris, came home to paint pale echoes of Raoul Dufy. In the last decade, he has spent more and more time in the villages of Anatolia, found much inspiration in Turkish folk art. The delicate brushwork and preference for pastel colors that marked his European apprenticeship have given way to strongly accentuated designs, contrasting glittery masses against vivid backgrounds (see opposite page...
Best of all, the Turkish government has just invited Eyuboglu and his wife, who is also a painter, to design basma-printed cloth often worn as a headdress by Moslem women-for production by the Turkish textile industry. This project, says Eyuboglu, "will make art available to thousands of the people; it is multiple...
...Composer Thomson has been doing musical portraits since 1928, usually with the subjects posing as for a painter, and now has well over a hundred (including one about Pablo Picasso called Bugles and Birds and a brassy waltz about Fiorello La Guardia...