Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FESTIVAL. Dylan Thomas: The World I Breathe. Award-winning portrait of the Welsh poet. Program includes recordings of his own readings, as well as interviews with his close friends Novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson and Painter Mervyn Levy. Repeat...
...thing as a spontaneous campaign appearance. Every candidate has his advance men, the harried unsung experts who go from town to town to make as sure as humanly possible that the crowds will be out, the schedule smooth, the publicity favorable. Here is TIME Correspondent Ken Danforth's portrait of one of them...
...Dufy only three years ago. But dreary works by Vlaminck, Van Dongen and lesser artists were also bid skyhigh. Still, some paintings failed to meet their reserve price (at which the owner prefers to keep possession rather than sell). Claude Monet's loving yet sharp-focused portrait of his wife, Madame Camille Monet, was pegged at $800,000. When bidding stopped at $500,000, the portrait was automatically withdrawn. Said Parke-Bernet's Peter Wilson: "There are surprises in every sale." He had little to regret; the two-day auction of 79 impressionist paintings had brought an alltime...
...answers to such questions about historic personages, along with other more or less fascinating oddments of Americana, now await tourists and trivia enthusiasts at Washington's new National Portrait Gallery. For its opening exhibit, called "This New Man: A Discourse in Portraits," the gallery assembled 173 likenesses of figures from American history (see color pages). Though the gallery already owns some 500 pictures, it reached outside its own store and borrowed about three-quarters of the portraits now on show. Paintings, busts, daguerreotypes, cartoons, and even occasional photographs are arranged in rooms that were liberally draped with flags...
...only U.S. President not included -at his request-is Lyndon Johnson. However, the gallery owns the portrait of him commissioned from Peter Hurd and then rejected by Johnson as "the ugliest thing I ever saw." It will go on view in February...