Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, seven years after her death, Londoners saw the first show of her work. (Her famed brother, swashbuckling portrait-painter Augustus John, had helped promote it.) The sad portraits, flower pieces and cat studies seemed as limited and dim as reflections in a cup of tea, but visitors found them strangely moving...
...latest to try to take his measure is young (24), New Jersey-born, Columbia-trained Rudolph von Abele. The result is not notably successful as a portrait (Stephens has chestnut hair on one page, black hair on another), but it is a generally scholarly study, based on primary sources, of an extraordinary political career. Not the least extraordinary fact in Stephens' life is that, having accepted the post of Confederate Vice President, he gave only lukewarm support to the Government. When his own ideas of states' rights and constitutional liberty were infringed by the Confederate Congress, he sulked...
Gertrude Stein's will, filed last week (it was written by a lawyer in standard legalese) left Picasso's classic 1906 portrait of Writer Stein to the public. But it did not go to the many-windowed Museum of Modern Art. It went to the Met. Crowed the Metropolitan's scholarly Vice Director Horace Jayne: "Possibly Miss Stein bequeathed it to us because we're an older institution...
...clifflike face and shrewd, appraising eyes in the portrait were bound to surprise those who remembered Gertrude Stein as the garrulous maiden aunt of modern letters. Picasso had gone all out to record physical solidity and force. Explained Stein in her book, Picasso, published in 1938: ". . . For him the reality of life is in the head, the face and the body, and this for him is so important, so persistent, so complete that it is not at all necessary to think of any other thing and the soul is another thing...
Although the $500 best-of-season award went to a dreamy, lovey-dovey piece called Portrait of a Girl, the Playhouse had actually done some better work. It was one of the few shows to tell writers: "Write about anything you like." And it paid one of radio's prettiest pennies ($200) for winning scripts...