Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zwink's sense of humor and his philosophical detachment, gossip that he is touched in the head. But his most objectionable symptom seems to be his longtime anti-Naziism. When Hitler took over Germany in 1934 Zwink retired from village life and kept to his house, painting bad portraits and canvases of church interiors. A calendar portrait of Franklin Roosevelt hung on his wall throughout the war. He defines himself as an anti-Nazi "with a clean conscience." When someone made a joke about the paradox of his anti-Naziism and his Judas role, he said: "I find...
...formal dedication of his portrait two years ago, Charles Francis Adams highlighted one Adams House dinner. Last year's farewell ceremonies were devoted to Archie McConnell, retiring Gold Coast superintendent...
...showing includes almost all schools of sculpture in vogue from the turn of the century to the present day. A mobile by Calder, a portrait of George Bernard Shaw by Jacob Epstein, and a humorous abstraction by Hans Arp are some of the pieces in the exhibit which will remain in the Museum until June...
...Vogue assembled the twelve most photographed models of the last decade, called the resultant group portrait "an Omnibus of Beauty" (see cut). As current replacements of the Ziegfeld and Gibson girls, said Vogue, "these twelve share a look of non-adolescence...
Last week in Manhattan gallerygoers saw another storytelling title that made them look twice at the picture. Boston Painter Glenna Miller had called her portrait of a barber (see cut): All Men Strive, but Who Shall Succeed...