Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what used to be Manhattan's Union Club, the Grand Central Art Galleries last week held the first one-man show in 15 years of the work of one of the most commercially successful portrait painters in the U. S.-Howard Chandler ("Pappy") Christy. Typical of the critical reaction was the New York Times...
...into the gallery in droves, gaped at slick prettified likenesses of Will Rogers, William Randolph Hearst, Richard Barthelmess, Eddie Rickenbacker, and James Aloysius Farley, lingered longest over lush, sleek-hipped nudes in the yellow marble lobby. Five years ago Artist Christy got a thousand or so dollars for a portrait. Today he charges his sitters...
...Francisco record-the editors of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin rushed a cameraman to the hospital, snapped Lawrence Eugene Quinn Jr., splashed the result down the entire first page of their second news section (see cut), believed they had printed the first full-length, life-size portrait of a human being ever to appear in a newspaper...
...earth tall as trees; a leaf large as a mountain, "Paysage Romantique"... One steer's head, one girl's head, a railroad track, one prairie, in oil and framed, "Paysage Andalou," by Jose Moreno Villa... And it was with profound regret that the Vagabond saw his friend's portrait, Edwin Arlington Robinson, taken down and replaced with a portrait which resembles the Vagabond's hag-in all respect dear women-and simply called, "Head of Woman", by Otto Dix. Gentlemen, don't miss this one. The Vagabond shudders at the thought of Dunster students living with this woman the rest...
...between 1811-1816, the climax of Frances Winwar's longer and more inclusive The Romantic Rebels comes with her record of the same period. The Romantic Rebels explores the interwoven lives of Byron, Keats, Shelley, gives an impression of diffuseness in comparison with Peter Quennell's vivid portrait. Even readers thoroughly familiar with the Byron legend are likely to find Byron: The Years of Fame absorbing reading, both for the sprightliness of Peter Quennell's prose and for his occasional daring insights. The Romantic Rebels places Byron's life in perspective with the astonishing careers...