Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...colony at Mystic is Robert Brackman, 41, outspoken foe of "modern" art, a National Academy member, who is well off with 53 summer students, gets fat prices for his female nudes, and in his portrait work can afford to turn down women, paint only men whose faces he admires. It includes Guy Pene du Bois whose fame dates back to pre-War I days when he, Davies, Bellows, Luks, Henri were putting modern U. S. painting on the map. Another member is young, happy-go-lucky Galed Gesner (usually willing to let a picture go for the price...
...designer James David Buckley chose six typical lush, salad-like Rousseau paintings, reproduced them in life-sized scenes with the help of rag-doll manikins, props of paper, cloth and wood. Window Dresser Buckley made each window represent a phase in the life of a woman. Rousseau's Portrait of a Young Girl, bloatedly enlarged, became "Her Awkward Age"; his Sleeping Gypsy, complete with mandolin and prowling lion, "Her Bohemian Period." Unlike previous art-conscious window displays, Buckley's contained no merchandise. Sole exception: a limp corset which dangled from the raggy hand of a baggily nude...
...Italian swag-notably the Horses of St. Mark's-but Italy was never satisfied that it had recovered all its rightful treasures. Last week Fascista, the University's official publication, listed demands for more: the Mona Lisa, other Da Vinci works, masterpieces by Titian, which include a portrait of the French King, Francis...
This summer the Germans are at Fontainebleau. Like other famed French artists, its teachers have not been heard from since France fell. But dark, decisive Painter Jean Despujols, longtime Fontainebleau instructor, who spent last winter portrait-painting in Texas, is in the U. S. Artist Despujols is a sound French academic painter who got off to the right start by winning the Grand Prix de Rome. His attractive blonde wife Millicent, a favorite model, is a Minneapolis girl whom he met when she studied the piano at Fontainebleau. Last spring Sculptress Lillie Harper organized her fellow Fontainebleau alumni, borrowed...
...more, his opinions, he hoped to give an image of a class, a generation and an age, "more or less as Henry Adams wrote about himself." The result is an ingratiating hodgepodge of reminiscence, ironic sentiment, anecdote, medical history, opinionation, earnest philosophy. As such the book is an excellent portrait of an aging, humane, liberal conservative...