Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Timor, across 3,600 miles of open sea. In Mutiny on the Bounty, the magnificence of Laughton's work rests largely in the way he resolves these strangely complementary forces motivating its central character. Bligh aboard the Bounty, a pasty-faced, sharp-tongued, miserly sadist, is a splendid portrait. It is, however, only a preface to Bligh after the mutiny. Bligh on duty and in action, cursing his loyal sailors from the stern of the open boat, riding the tiller in mountainous seas, slitting the neck of a seabird for a sick sailor and finally, as the gulls rise...
...glass doors while Inventor Maxim gesticulated with his glasses. Lecturer Thomas propped print after print on an easel. Editor Williams squinted, argued, paced the floor. Finally the judges emerged, smiling amiably and announced their decision. First prize of $1,000 went to Miss Mabel Graham of Lebanon. Ky. whose Portrait of Margaret, a picture of a laughing little girl in a party dress, clutching a balloon (see cut), had been entered in the national contest by the Louisville Courier-Journal. Louisville newshawks found Miss Graham, a teacher in the Lebanon High School, all warm and pink with excitement. Daughter...
...Houdon's marble bust of Voltaire, lent by the Comedie Franchise. ¶Watteau's Jupiter and Antiopc, from the Louvre. ¶ Mme Vigee Lebrun's portrait of Marie Antoinette, lent by Edward J. Berwind. Every number in the list shone with that French gaiety which 20th Century Parisians have lost. Not even in the court portraits was there a trace of the stolid respectability of a Gainsborough or a Reynolds. In not one of the French masters was there a trace of the social responsibility of a Hogarth...
...making pictorial wool embroideries came to Mrs. Zorach suddenly one afternoon just before the War while she was looking ruefully at a painting with which she was very dissatisfied. Since then she has finished 22 wool pictures. Most elaborate and expensive of those exhibited last week was a portrait of Mr. & Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., standing with their family in front of their summer home at Seal Harbor, Me. It took three years of intermittent stitching for Mrs." Zorach to finish it. "The difficult thing," she explained last week, "is to get the right sort of linen for them...
...setting behind an equally red farmhouse while a railway train let out a plume of smoke in the middle distance. It won the $500 Norman Wait Harris Medal. Gallery visitors greeted with relief that ably-painted veteran of a dozen U. S. art shows, Eugene Speicher's portrait of a mustached blacksmith, Red Moore (TIME, April...