Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tickled at the mere prospect, Elmer posed last week for his portrait. From barn sides, billboards all over the U. S. his grin will hint that nobody ought to miss the new (and cheaper) wonders of the New York World's Fair. In real life the man on the poster, painted by New York Artist Howard Scott, is 50-year-old Leslie Ostrander, actor and professional model. But to everyone he will be just Elmer...
Before magazine-cover girls became Nazi Germany's art ideal, one of the most widely heiled of German sculptors was a bushy-headed, Hitler-mustached Jew named Benno Elkan. For his portrait busts, a who's who of pre-Hitler Germany, he was paid as much as $5,000 a commission. A master of monumental stonecutting, who could make his granite flow like molten lava, glow like human flesh, Elkan was picked by the Government to carve its biggest monuments to Germany's World War I dead. Art-loving Germans trooped for miles to view the massive...
...portrait busts of Prince Edward, John D. Rockefeller and the abdicated King of Siam (who posed for him a full week) caused town talk. But of all his exhibited pieces, the one that attracted most attention was the gaunt candelabrum he had taken with him out of Germany. Last week British art-lovers bought it for a niche in Westminster Abbey. Said gratified Sculptor Elkan: "This is my greatest honor...
George Bernard Shaw, free of charge, presented Manhattan Caricaturist Jack Rosen with an original self-portrait of G. B. Shaw in a top hat - scrawled on top of a caricature which Rosen had sent him (see cut). Said Shaw in a dedicatory note on the back: "Your caricature is a stupid one. When you are caricaturing a brain worker make his forehead nine-tenths of the picture." Reproved, Rosen tried again...
Florence Bankhead, stepmother of Tallulah. wife of the Speaker of the House, admitted putting finishing touches on the Howard Chandler Christy portrait of her which hangs in the Bankhead apartment. Said she: "I added lipstick. The lips were too pale...