Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Accepted an oil portrait of his mother from the Order of DeMolay...
Last week Manhattan's Hyperion Press put out a $10 book for the Christmas trade which was likely to strain its readers' patriotism. It included some of the best -but many of the worst-of the most widely published pictures recently produced in the U.S. Portrait of America reproduced four Satevepost and two New Yorker covers, a spate of paintings for ads, and a few art-gallery pictures. It led off with a four-page primer on U.S. art history by Book Critic Bernard DeVoto who, being a literary man, thinks of art as illustration...
DeVoto thinks the big corporations have taken over from the millionaires and museums to make home-grown art possible. To prove it, Portrait of America has six paintings from the Pepsi-Cola contest, ads for Kaywoodie pipes (each with a pipe smoker) and the U.S. Brewers' Foundation (in which brown bottles appear). But to labor DeVoto's thesis, Portrait has to omit the best examples of art in advertising: the Container Corp. of America's series by foreign artists (TIME, Apr. 30). The book contains a few interesting pictures (some of them badly reproduced), such as Grant...
...American portrait painter's son, Mielziner was born and brought up in Paris, spoke French till he was ten. He himseif studied to be a painter, switched to stage designing partly because he was mad about the theater, partly to be sure of an income. Says he: "I've never been sorry," pointing meanwhile with an artist's pride to the prices and praise his stage drawings have fetched...
...late Robert Benchley makes a genial appearance in the film, but unhappily his lines were provided by someone less talented than Benchley at writing a Benchley role. The Stork Club's Sherman Billingsley (played by Bill Goodwin) should be gratified by his screen portrait: he is pictured as handsome, witty, kindly, generous to a fault and extravagantly admired by all his own employes as well as by cafe society at large...