Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gramercy Park, owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney ('22), Painter George Bellows has caught with bold brush strokes a golden instant of a summer day, quickened for today's viewers by nostalgia for that quieter age. Everett Shinn, one of the original Ash Can Eight, recorded another facet of the feather boa era in Trapeze, owned by Wall Streeter Arthur Goodhart Altschul ('43). A painter who often exclaimed, "Lord, I love the theater," Shinn depicted the flashing figures onstage at Manhattan's Winter Garden Theater. Shinn, with an old vaudeville fan's admiration...
Though the total number of artists in Paris now seems to be shrinking slightly, there are still some 30,000 of them ("As many as there are prostitutes," one painter sardonically pointed out). Up to 20% are foreigners, including approximately 400 Americans. Even to find housing and studio space, artists have been forced to spread out far beyond such traditional artists' quarters as Montparnasse and Montmartre, now live in attics and mansards or cellars all over Paris...
...long haul, the artist's best bet for a steady income is a gallery contract, a monthly payment of $50 to $150 for "first look" rights. Portrait commissions, once the artist's standby, have practically dried up; the art patron willing to finance a painter is as scarce in inflation-ridden France as a gold franc note. Many artists barter their works for art materials, do part-time drudge work painting lead soldiers, washing bottles, painting houses...
...slowly took shape in the fusty, rambling apartment in Manhattan's far East 80s that Tambi shares with his pretty, Bombay-born wife, Sana Tyabjee. The first issue hit the bookstalls last month, at a cost of about $6,000, and an unsolicited angel, Dwight Ripley, "an American painter educated at Harrow," made up the bulk of the deficit. Tambi pays his contributors "according to need" at a top rate of $1.25 a line, but most of the poets in the first issue donated their poems. A soft-spoken man who chainsmokes Pall Malls and dresses in Indian fashion...
...Shahn, a leading United States painter, will be the University's Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry during...