Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Certain high officials here are having their portraits painted by a young woman painter who is receiving from the CWA the sum of $5,000 for each portrait. This fact was told by Mr. Maynard. the Collector of Customs, who is one of the gentlemen being painted. He also showed the picture...
...Post Office last week announced it would issue a new 3? stamp in honor of Mother's Day (May 13). Officials agreed it would be a reproduction of Whistler's Portrait of the Artist's Mother, could not decide whether to have her clasped hands hold a bouquet of carnations, Mother's Day symbol. The stamp will be issued...
...Manhattan Mrs. Roosevelt visited the studio of Ellen Emmet Rand who was engaged last summer to paint the official portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to be left hanging in the White House after his departure. In Washington and Hyde Park, Mrs. Rand did her job. Said she: "The President was a very good subject, a very willing sitter. All told we had about eight sittings. . . . Sometimes he received callers during the sittings, but I liked that. It made for a more natural expression. He was really very patient about it." As originally painted the portrait bore the famed Roosevelt smile...
...Painted by Jerry Farnsworth. Robes from an antique Manchu portrait loaned by Upton Close...
...money from the Guggenheim family-plutocrats not included in his book. He is rather deaf, has a sloping forehead, a shy Slavic face; his mustache and hair parted in the middle give him the look of a Yiddish Robert Louis Stevenson. Other books: Gallimathias (poems), Zola & His Time, Portrait of the Artist as American, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The Robber Barons is the March choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...