Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after glaze to achieve the hard candylike effect that is his specialty. After a period of financial and marital difficulties (he has been divorced), Grant Wood resolved to take a year off to paint. Last week, a thoroughly happy man, he was producing once more, had enjoyed doing a portrait of his old Iowa friend, Henry Wallace, for TIME (see cover). His first one-man show in six years is scheduled for next March...
...such apprehensions. Last week Dr. Oswald M. Dresen of Marquette University Dental School, addressing the American Dental Association convened in Cleveland, observed that many prosthodontists now ask their patients for snapshots. If a patient has no good picture of himself, said Dr. Dresen, the dentist is likely to turn portrait photographer and take some himself. Purpose: to help the dentist recreate the patient's facial expression as nearly as possible. Besides photography, several other techniques are in use. One is to make shadow records of the profile ; another is to take facial measurements with an instrument called the dento...
Fortnight ago Wendell Willkie had his portrait painted. He sat in Rushville, Ind. and Manhattan, never more than 40 minutes at a time, for a, total of two hours and a half. Last week he pronounced the job good: "an almost exact likeness." The man who painted him, lean, dapper, longish-haired John Doctoroff, exclaimed: "Oh, God, there was nothing so hard in my life. It was like painting a moving picture...
...Tribune paid Mr. Doctoroff $500 to spend a week in Topeka, Kans. painting Candidate Alf Landon. The Tribune held first rights to the picture, but the artist retained the copyright, which enabled him to charge the Republicans $1,500 for using it as their official campaign portrait. In 1938 the Tribune paid Mr. Doctoroff $500 to paint General John Joseph Pershing (who posed in his general's coat, and pajama pants which didn't show in the portrait). Artist Doctoroff sold the rights to the American Legion for a fund-raising campaign...
...Wendell Willkie portrait was also commissioned by the Tribune, for the usual $500. Mr. Doctoroff will sell the rights, if the Republicans wish them, for the usual $1,500. During the brief sittings, Artist Doctoroff went all-out for Candi date Willkie, resolved to vote for him al though he has never voted at all before. Last week he even let out a Willkie slogan, which impressionable Republicans may like: "He seems to put his arms around you with his eyes...