Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first picture in what has become the recognized Wood manner was a portrait of his mother holding a potted sansevieria. At her throat is the identical cameo which he put on his sister and used with such effect a year later in American Gothic. Iowans liked his work. He won the art contest for a sweepstakes prize at the Iowa State Fair, continued to win it year after year...
...help teach at Stone City appeared a handsome dark-haired young man named Arnold Pyle who is the subject of Grant Wood's best-known male portrait, Arnold Comes of Age. Painter Arnold Pyle not only taught at Stone City while it lasted but now frames some of Grant Wood's pictures, helps prepare his panels for painting, acts as his unofficial business manager. His portrait, too, was on view at last week's Manhattan show...
Southern Mammy, by oldtime William H. Zerbe of the New York Herald Tribune, one of the few U. S. newscameramen who are also associates of the Royal Photographic Society. His print was a pleasant unaffected portrait of an old Negro woman puffing a clay pipe, her face gleaming with high lights like a figure of carved mahogany...
...Commerce recently voted to change its name to Deanville), he won an argument to have his salary raised to almost $20,000, the fact made front page headlines. His biography in the Saturday Evening Post followed that of the Blue Eagle. On the dials of cheap Waterbury watches his portrait followed that of Mickey Mouse. By last week, it was clear that with Shirley Temple, Father Coughlin, the Dionne Quintuplets and Mrs. Roosevelt, Jerome Herman Dean was definitely one of that small company of super-celebrities whose names, faces and occupations are familiar to every literate U. S. citizen...
...Miles is most prominent as a critic and playwright, although he has had considerable experience as a director. He collaborated with John Colton, author of "Rain," and "Shanghai Gesture," in writing the play "9 Pine St.," and his other plays include 'Portrait of Gilbert" and "The Granite Lady...