Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...living from their vocation, most are intermittently engaged in other work. When the current Chicago Derby started, the field included a butcher, a candy wrapper, a steel mill worker who holds eight roller-skating records, a commercial artist, a tattooed French sailor who had a lady's portrait scraped off his hip in a fall last fortnight, a golf-club maker and a pretty 21-year-old girl who claims to be a cousin of Herbert Hoover. She, Elizabeth Hoover of Kansas City, with her tall, blond Swedish partner, Wes Aronson of Chicago, was last week leading the Chicago...
...successfully downed the idea that to pay as much as Lizzie Bliss used to pay for single pictures is slightly sinful. As far as is known, the highest price Mrs. Rockefeller ever paid for a work of art was $20,000 which she gave Marguerite Zorach for a tapestry portrait of the Rockefeller family in front of their summer home at Seal Harbor (TIME, Nov. 4). In general, $1,000 is her top price. This has tended to bring her the best work of unknown artists, the second-rate work of men with established reputations. It has also brought...
...Chicago. Unlike his admirer, the late Louis Sullivan (TIME, Dec. 9), Richardson had nothing to do with the development of the skyscraper, but because he was the most important U. S. architect of the 19th Century, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week hung a gigantic portrait of him in its lobby, published a scholarly critique of his work,* and displayed photographs and plans of his most important buildings all over the ground floor...
Because they could take it as one more indication of degenerate capitalist aristocracy, Reds might delight in Henry de Montherlant's portrait of two eccentrics. Tycoons would find it had little connection with real life as they know it. But readers with no axe to grind and no grindstone to rest their noses on will be entertained, amused and touched by Perish in Their Pride. Though a study in human eccentricity (and French eccentricity at that), it was concentric with a more perfectly rounded humanity. Author Montherlant did not make caricatures of his creatures, grotesques in their own right...
Author Montherlant writes with brilliant self-control, never smirks, nudges or winks. Result is a portrait that is both bitingly just and hilariously sympathetic. He is not so objective with some of the minor characters, notably Mile de Bauret, a type of modern young woman that he admits makes him shudder: "Mile de Bauret had a taste for letters and the arts, but her literary education only commenced with the end of the 19th Century. Which is to say it amounted to nothing. She looked at the world and explained it in terms of the pet theories...