Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early days of the civil war, Spanish proletarians seized the Madrid palace and handsome park of Alba, part of which was damaged by a Rightist incendiary bomb. Today Alba's most valuable art treasures, such as Goya's portrait of a former Duchess of Alba and canvases by Rubens, Murillo, etc., are hung temporarily in the proletarian museum at Valencia. In Madrid, boys & girls in the peaked caps of the People's Army drill with rifles in Alba's park. A militiaman who insists on always wearing his peaked cap, even indoors, regularly uses Alba...
TIME erred in captioning Dr. Schuschnigg's cover portrait "The Chancellor of Austria" and will continue to make such errors. Covers in color must be printed a fortnight in advance (TIME...
...paintings of children, for example, suggest their potentialities as sadists, lechers and wretches as clearly as their childish charm. If this austere originality appears incapable of lightness, even morbid, most visitors last week conceded its maturity and credited it with at least one painting of extraordinary power-a portrait of Artist André Derain...
...slight, dark-haired man with a pale, pointed face and sharp eyes, Balthus is married to a Swiss girl, lives in a studio apartment on Paris' Cour de Rohan. He is a close friend of Author Andr éGide and, in spite of his frightening portrait, admires André Derain above all modern artists...
...Howard University, largest Negro university in the U. S. As they arrived they were handed copies of the Alumni Journal, published by the university's General Alumni Association. Three hundred copies were distributed before police routed the distributors. On the Journal's cover was a large portrait of bald, pince-nezzed, light-skinned Dr. Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, first Negro president of the 71-year-old institution, now serving his twelfth year, and beneath it in large letters: "The Case Against President Mordecai W. Johnson...