Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Philip Wilson Steer, 81, British landscape and portrait painter; in London. A prominent figure in turn-of-the-century art circles in London, he was the first living painter to be given a one-man show in the famed Tate Gallery...
...picked by the Museum of Modern Art for its recent show of little-known U.S. artists (TIME, Feb. 2). Copeland Burg, who paints between jobs as a crime reporter on the Herald-American, won a prize at the Institute show this year; so did Felix Ruvolo, with a quizzical portrait, Girl with Dog, and Russian-born Raymond Breinin, who paints imaginary scenes somewhat like of famed Russian Marc Chagall...
...been surpassed for not only is it excellently constructed through plot and dialogue, but it is also finely executed in characterization and in use of comic relief upon a tragic theme. Anyone who saw the Flora Robson production of this play will remember it as the outstanding portrait of a murderess, her motives, and her downfall...
Nobody, for example, really knows what Columbus looked like. There are at least 71 "alleged original portraits" in existence. Since no two look alike, Author Morison prefers an imaginary, 119th-Century portrait that "gives an impression of force, dignity and integrity...
...contemporaries', spoke directly to the man in the street. His meticulous paintings of plain U.S. landscapes and plain U.S. people were hung in the smart art salons of 57th Street; they also appeared in ads and on magazine covers (TIME, Sept. 23, 1940). After Whistler's Portrait of the Artist's Mother, Wood's austere portrait of the typical Iowa farm couple, American Gothic, had become the most popular of all U.S. paintings...