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...birth date from 1885 to 1893, so that he would not seem an old fogy to the young art student, Sally Michel, whom he met in a rooming house in Gloucester, Mass., in 1924, courted and married. He was a man of ab solute dedication and conviction, a painter who did almost nothing but paint; the result was an enormous oeuvre, usually a painting a day until heart trouble slowed him down in 1949 and killed him, in his 80th year...
...picture is modeled after Hommage à Delacroix by Henri Fantin-Latour, who in 1864 lined up seven artists, including Manet and Whistler, and three writers, including Baudelaire, who had been Delacroix's admirers. Fantin-Latour then judiciously posed them beside a portrait of the great French Romantic painter. The composition is as simple as the relationships. Soyer, on the other hand, chose a much more difficult situation to compose. He selected ten realist artists for his Homage, including Edward Hopper, Jack Levine, Leonard Baskin, Reginald Marsh and himself. Also portrayed was Soyer's twin brother Moses, a lesser...
...million price was the largest ever paid for an American painting. But what would no doubt please Painter Samuel F.B. Morse more is the fact that his canvas Gallery of the Louvre has been plucked from dusty storage at Syracuse University, and will now be displayed with due fanfare by its new owner, Daniel J. Terra, 71, at his two-year-old Terra Museum of American Art in Evanston, Ill. The painting was meant to be a sort of early-American effort at cultural packaging: 38 of the world's greatest masterpieces all on one canvas. Depicted, in remarkable...
DIED. Kenzo Okada, 79, Japanese-American painter and critically admired modernist who combined a gently mystical Oriental mood with a Western abstract style; of a heart attack; in Tokyo. One of the first Japanese artists to work in the U.S. after World War II, Okada often painted five canvases at once, using pieces of wood, rollers, fingers. And, he said, "of course, I also have brushes...
...taming the illusion. Full-time Technical Director Carl Callaway, who has spent 38 of his 48 years working on the pageant, has mastered the art of creating an impression of flatness, the opposite of most canvas artists' aim. A brawny, cigar-chomping character who doubles as carpenter, electrician, painter and engineer, Callaway faces the major problem of lighting a show that is held after dark in a variety of weather conditions...