Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, Artzybasheff's cover portrait of Giannini was rolling off the press at the rate of 20,000 an hour, and illustration for the story was piling up for final selection. Assistant Managing Editor Dana Tasker had okayed the press proof of Artzybasheff's cover, helped plan the map of California and the San Francisco picture layout...
Dream Girl. Elmer Rice's entertaining portrait of a young lady given to spacious daydreams, with samples of her dreaming (TIME...
...Dedicated to My Fiancee (see cut) was once almost rejected by the Parisian Salon des Independants (which supposedly takes anything) as pornographic art. The home-town girl named Bella, to whom the painting was dedicated, saw nothing shocking about it. As his wife, she later appeared in Double Portrait...
...artist sniffs, sends Kitty off to an adjacent powder room to wash. Then he puts her in position (with suitable decolletage), cocks a critical eye, takes up an artistic stance, begins to sketch. It is only a matter of time before Kitty's portrait hangs with Gainsborough's Blue Boy at the Royal Academy, and she, a great London lady, drives the peerage half-mad with her charms...
...professor of chemistry, egged on by a boozily mischievous advertising man, acts out a cruel, funny little fable of Good & Evil when he banishes the ducks he loves and sublimates the duck-killing turtles he abominates into a best-selling soup. "Turtle soup," chortles the adman, captioning a pallid portrait of a lady in crinolines, "saved the sweethearts and mothers of a proud and gallant race." Another neighbor, variously known as Blackburn, Malatesta and Swarzkopf, turns out to be the Devil, and delivers some of Author Wilson's most envenomed and heartfelt opinions (notably on Stalinism) in a monologue...