Word: painters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Britain's prime ministers were assembled in London for the Empire Exhibition at Wembley. Not without much shrewd wangling and entirely "on his own," Painter Chandor got them all to sit together for a monster canvas which, when finished, was given a place of honor in the Government's pavilion at Wembley and later hung permanently in the Colonial Office. This piece of work entrenched Painter Chandor, at 27, in the very front rank of his profession...
...went to Detroit to paint Col. Lindbergh at the behest of Edsel Ford, who wanted to give the portrait to the city. But Col. Lindbergh backed out of the engagement lest all U. S. cities make similar demands on his time. In his large Book-Cadillac studio-suite, Painter Chandor stayed at Detroit, painting the prosperous, until last spring when TIME gave him his Hoover Cabinet commission, when he moved to Washington. This project is now half-finished, with the President, Vice President, the Secretaries of State and the Navy, the Attorney-General and Postmaster-General...
Like most painters, Painter Chandor prefers men to women as subjects. "It's an awful strain to paint women. They must constantly be amused," he says. For women who interest him as subjects he designs clothes. Women with whose ideas about posing themselves he takes issue, should feel flattered rather than other- wise. They are "worth bothering about." Of necessity an ethnologist and character-reader of sorts, he says dark-haired people have more depth of character than light-haired and make better subjects psychologically as well as pictorially. Beauty attracts him less than "interesting" faces. Says...
...These are the ultra violet rays, as it were, of the painter's spectrum, and the artist who, like Mr. Chandor, is not blind to them presents a genuine and sincere portrait rather than a mere likeness...
...Painter Chandor's grandfather was Count Laszlo Chandor of Hungary, kin by marriage of the great Prince Metternich. His mother was an Irishwoman. Raised in England and at heart an Englishman, he, like many another young gentleman, considered it more sporting to go into the War as a "Tommy" in the ranks than to get a commission. After he came out, the tailstroke of what had smashed him up "a bit," smashed his family's fortunes. Instead of grubbing along or "going out" to the U. S. or Canada, he squared off at life, determined to develop his strongest talent...