Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BEING ORDERED ON A TECHNICALITY TO GIVE A VERDICT THAT CONFLICTED WITH ITS IDEA OF JUSTICE. . . . AFTER SIGNING THE VERDICT AS DIRECTED BY THE COURT THE FOREMAN OF THE JURY STATED: "l NEVER SIGNED ANYTHING SO UNWILLINGLY IN MY LIFE." ALL OF THE JURORS DECLARED THAT THEY FOUND THE PORTRAIT BEAUTIFUL...
...MISS BENNETT'S MUCH ADVERTISED THIGHS, A LIFE-SIZED PHOTOGRAPH OF HER WAS IN COURT BESIDE THE PORTRAIT MAKING IT OBVIOUS THAT THEY HAD UNDERGONE A FLATTERING REDUCTION IN MY PORTRAIT...
...last week in Washington, Mr. Christy's portrait of Mrs. Coolidge may have cost the artist more than most painters earn in a lifetime. When Representative Sol Bloom, director general of the Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission, sponsored a resolution commissioning Mr. Christy to paint a picture called The Signing of the Constitution for $35,000, Representative Allen Treadway of Massachusetts protested: "I do not want to pose as an art critic . . . but I have seen Mr. Christy's portrait of Mrs. Coolidge in a red gown with a white dog and I am opposed to giving him this commission...
...surface of a highly polished piece of maple. This year, Artist Blumenschein's contribution was a populous piece called Ourselves and Taos Neighbors, in which celebrities like Mabel Dodge Luhan, the late D. H. Lawrence, Mr. & Mrs. Blumenschein, are planted as stiffly as figures in a family portrait in a maple-colored adobe interior. Typical of the surprises hidden among the 417 pieces in the show was the work of 42-year-old Novelist Ramon Guthrie, Scherzo from the Proud City: a reverential study of 19th Century French Critic Sainte-Beuve...
...Wood relaxed from his more serious labors by composing and publishing a book of nonsense verses, illustrated by himself. Artistic ability seems to run in the Wood family. The scientist's daughter Margaret (Mrs. Victor C. White of Cedarhurst, L. I.), eldest of his four children, painted a portrait of him which will be presented by a group of friends to the University next week. It appears on TIME'S cover...