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Though the fact was not discovered until some 60 years after his death, Porter was also a brilliant primitive painter who decorated the walls of countless New England homes with wild landscape murals. But he was far from a traditional example of neglected genius. In many ways, Porter was the most active collaborator in his own oblivion. He never settled anywhere for long; he failed to patent most of his inventions. Above all, he left most of his hundreds of portraits and murals unsigned...
...months when he was twelve, and then turned his back on his family's prosperous farm. In 1807 he set out for Portland carrying a fife and a fiddle. Within eight years he was making money as a traveling musician, a teacher, a sign and house painter, a soldier, a builder. With typical Yankee ingenuity, Porter tried each occupation from as many angles as possible. Once he mastered a skill, he proceeded immediately to teach it and then to write an instruction book about...
...lightening creams and $20 wigs bears witness to this fact. Many would undoubtedly like to emulate the handful of women who have attained the sophistication that marks them as black Frenchwomen and black Englishwomen. One woman of such apparent glamour is Younouss N'Diaye, a sensuous actress and painter who lived in France for five years before returning to Dakar, where she appears on television and has starred in a Senegalese motion picture, Le Mandat...
Phantom Figures. Introduced to the Madrid art world by Uruguayan Painter Rafael Barradas, Sanchez became the co-founder with Painter Benjamin Palencia of the Vallecas school, which sought to escape from academicism and create a new kind of national art based on themes and images from Spanish tradition and folklore. Even while he lived as an exile in Russia, his sculpture, primarily in wood and sheet iron, remained distinctly Iberian in spirit. "He saw art in everything," his widow Clara recently recalled. "And once he had seen it, everything became a work of art. It all served his purpose-clay...
Another delight is the work of the neglected American painter, William Trost Richards (1833-1905), whose Twilight on the New Jersey Coast might be described as a vision of the archetypal summer sea. Vast and lonely, the painting is devoid of human life. Gently lapping breakers touch the shore, and on the far horizon is a lone ship. On a small patch of beach a gull inspects some flotsam. The ocean is the Atlantic, but it could just as easily be the Indian, the Pacific, or Homer's wine-dark Aegean...