Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Featuring the exhibition is a self portrait in the lower room of the museum. Bristling quince-colored hair, streaked with light, is brushed back en brosse into a stippled green background. The face has a yellow tinge, the eyes are disdainful and cold above an astonishing fiery red beard. It is not hard to imagine the possessor of such features racing helter-skelter through life and at last landing in an insane asylum...
...Director Holger Cahill of the Works Progress Administration announced last week that 4,300 muralists, portrait painters, print makers, sculptors, etc. are now at work under his direction on 327 projects that will cost the Government $3,000,000. The Government has set up free art schools in New York City, Nashville, Raleigh, Oklahoma City, Orlando, Gainesville and Dade City, Fla., Columbus, Grand Rapids, Elizabeth and Newark, N. J., has opened art galleries in New York, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Florida, Virginia...
...with variably plausible excuses, he looked up the men whose addresses were on the list. First was Tony, the moderately successful but immoderately handsome artist who had painted Christina's portrait. Tony volunteered the information that he had been in love with her, asked her to be his mistress but she had refused. Brand felt momentarily better. Then in turn he visited: a less talented neurotic, on the verge of a nervous breakdown; his ex-chauffeur; a down-&-out book-reviewer. Three men on the list he failed to see. One, a religious maniac, had shot himself; another...
Second of his proposed series of Harvard personalities, Keith Martin '32 has just completed a portrait of Willard L.Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School, to be hung in an exhibition of his work at the Grace Horne Galleries in Boston, opening Monday afternoon...
...Senior year, Martin had decided that portrait painting would be his vocation. The next step, he felt, would be to attach himself to an artist whose work he admired, whose critical judgment he trusted, and who was not connected with an art school. He became a tutor and general handy-man in the household of Wayman Adams and worked with him for two years...