Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover's portrait in colors in TIME for March 2 is no doubt a fine likeness, well done, though I might be better able to judge the matter if I had ever met my "Chief." I do not claim or desire any distinction because some people believe that they see a resemblance to the President in my bulky form and ample face. But now that TIME has published this fine portrait, offers to sell additional thereof for ten cents "(to cover cost of mailing)", I may pardonably be keenly interested. There occurs to me, and perchance to numerous...
Renee has already lived one life when her story opens. She has been the devoted, deceived, finally disillusioned wife of a fashionable portrait painter, and her divorce, she thought, put the quietus on any further flutterings of the heart. But not so. Although she takes very seriously, professionally, impersonally her job as music-hall dancer and she and her partner are on a mutually unaffectionate business basis she wants someone to love. When gawky, rich, but sincere Max Dufferein- Chautel presents himself, suffused with gawky and sincere emotion, at her dress-ing-room she is merely annoyed, brusquely kicks...
CONGRATULATION'S TO DOUGLAS CHANDOR AND THANKS TO TIME FOR GIVING US PRESIDENT HOOVERS PORTRAIT...
...very much surprised to see the portrait of President Hoover in your March 2 edition which you state was expressly painted by Chandor for TIME. Its hoary academicism is so completely out of keeping with the alert modernity which has always, at least to this reader, characterized TIME! I am always stimulated by what I see and read in your magazine but I was really shocked by this portrait. To look at it is a dull and musty experience. Why can't TIME keep step with art as well as politics and science...
...collection comes a canvas by Jean Chardin, who was the leader of a school of Parisian still-life painters in the middle of the XVIII-century. It represents a monkey painting a picture for a group of animal spectators. The other painting is of an earlier date, a portrait of a man by Nicholas do Largilliere. Largilliere was one of the greatest portrait painters of his time, and was appointed artist to the French and British Courts for many years...