Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most excellent cover portrait of Everett Dirksen. My vote goes to our Senator from Illinois for President...
GILBERT STUART once said, in a wry comment on the grand work of his mentor, Benjamin West, that ";no one would paint history who could do a portrait." Stuart went on from there to produce a great and unique visual record of American history expressed in portraits. This week's cover of President James Monroe is part of that record.* President Monroe sat for Stuart in Boston early in July 1817, four months after he had taken office in his first term, and while he was on a trip inspecting military installations. The Essex Register of Salem, Mass...
...Fools, Porter (1, last week) 2. Youngblood Hawke, Wouk (3) 3. Dearly Beloved, Lindbergh (2) 4. The Reivers, Faulkner (4) 5. Another Country, Baldwin (7) 6. The Prize, Wallace (6) 7. Uhuru, Ruark (5) 8. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (10) 9. Letting Go, Roth (8) 10. Portrait in Brownstone, Auchincloss (9) NONFICTION 1. The Rothschilds, Morton (1) 2. My Life in Court, Nizer (2) 3. Sex and the Single Girl, Brown (4) 4. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Hudson (5) 5. The Guns of August, Tuchman (3) 6. Who's in Charge Here?, Gardner (7) 7. Travels with...
...newly discovered work, actually an unfinished sketch in oil, is not included among the catalogued paintings of Cézanne, though it is similar to both The Artist's Sister (1867-69) and the Portrait of Marie Cézanne (1865-67). now in a German collection. Nevertheless. City Art Museum Director Charles Nagel believes that the discovery is a portrait of an unidentified peasant woman rather than a third view of sister...
...time being. St. Louisans may view Nagel's bonanza at the City Art Museum, where, because Cézanne painted it upside down in relation to the other portrait, it is being displayed in a flipover frame. Ironically, the long-hidden Cézanne will eventually disappear again: to preserve the more valuable work, a new canvas liner will have to be glued back in place. But doing so will be painful. To many art lovers the unfinished portrait of the peasant woman has more warmth of life than the later, bolder Artist's Sister...