Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston Churchill's likeness* by Douglas Chandor, well-heeled portrayer of the well-heeled; brought probably the highest U.S. price ever paid for a contemporary portrait: $25,000. The buyer: Bernard Baruch, who planned to keep it a while, then decide what museum should have...
...fair a sight as any landscape painter could want. Rain-washed red hillsides are green again. Young willow leaves festoon the roads winding through the rice paddies. But the springtime beauty of this central Chinese province, one of the nation's "rice bowls," ends with the landscape. A portrait painter in Hunan would find an ugly subject-the bitter, bony face of famine...
...color to fly from. When he was bad, Evergood was horrid. Some of his most obviously propagandistic work (American Tragedy, Jobs Not Dimes') looked careless-on-purpose-like that of a politician who mispronounces words for effect. But thought-out paintings such as Juju as a Wave (a portrait of his wife-see cut) had a warmth of feeling which confirmed his considerable stature among U.S. contemporaries...
...unabashedly simian Self-Portrait by Tennessee's Representative James Percy Priest. It was, explained Priest, "a joke...
...Uncle Zebulon, portrait of a Negro, by Arkansas' Brooks Hays. Said he: "I forget the OPA, the CPA and everything else when I'm painting...