Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California's Governors eventually get hung in the state capitol in Sacramento, and Portrait Subject Goodwin Knight, 62, California's Republican helmsman from 1953 until this year, knew that he would be no exception. From the start he failed to hit it off with Minnesota Artist Cameron Booth, picked by a nonpartisan art committee from more than 100 painters to immortalize Goodie in oil for a $3,000 fee. Last week Knight saw the result for the first time. His reaction: anguish. His main objections were to the color of his suit (brown, which he never wears...
...founding fathers of the U.S. make a somewhat solemn gallery in the mind. Remembered mostly from portraits painted late in their hardworking, often harsh lives, they seem austere, wrinkled and careworn. Now a miniature portrait of one of the greatest of them, Thomas Jefferson, has come to light, showing him as he really appeared in the fateful summer...
...prize example of the master's ecstatic old age, and the Metropolitan's seventh El Greco. Most famous among the other six are the magnificent Portrait of Cardinal Nino de Guevara and the unique View of Toledo. The Cardinal keeps all the bloom of the painter's passion, but Toledo has suffered and so has the fabulous new Vision. One New York critic complained that the Metropolitan's restorers had understood "El Greco in terms of 20th century expressionism...
...market keeps climbing. At Sotheby's in London last week, the scramble was for 29 French impressionist and postimpressionist works put up for auction by American Collector Walter P. Chrysler Jr. Paul Cezanne's portrait of his wife went for $112,000; Georges Braque's cubist Woman with Mandolin brought $100,800. more than double the previous top price for a Braque canvas; a pair of Renoir portraits (Ambroise Vollard as a Toreador and Misia Sert) sold for $61,600 and $44,800. Total sale: $613,256, which Chrysler will give to his Chrysler Art Museum...
RICHARD NIXON: A POLITICAL AND PERSONAL PORTRAIT (309 pp.)-Earl Mazo -Harper...