Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JACQUES VILLON - Thaw, 50 East 78th. Fifteen paintings trace a life-long love affair with art, from a youthful Portrait of the Artist, who had not yet courted cubism, to The Environs of Rouen, when he had wedded it to his own luminous impressionism. Through April...
THEMES FROM SHAKESPEARE - Salpeter, 42 East 57th. A palettable painting party for his 400th birthday. Present: Antonio Frasconi's woodcut portrait of the poet; John Sennhauser's collage soliloquy, To Be or Not To Be; Philip Evergood's charcoal-and-wash of Macbeth and the witches; Mel Silverman's Will plastered against a 16th century papier-mache London; 16 other artists. Through April...
...Barbra's half-furnished penthouse, Artist Henry Koerner painted the cover portrait in three sittings, while "interior decorators were coming in by the droves." More or less at the same time, she also managed to run through scenes from the show for Photographer Ormond Gigli, whose color shots accompany our story, and to rove the town with Reporter Ray Kennedy, shopping for antiques, shoes or Fudgsicles. Says Kennedy: "I felt as if I were on a teen-age date...
...President Lowell stared out over her head from his portrait in the Junior Common Room, she bitterly attacked his role in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, in which she too had figured prominently. "No matter how many books are written about bullets," she said, Sacco and Vanzetti will someday be exonerated...
Tanz's measured progress continued until he came to van Gogh's Self-portrait, 1889, oils, 65 x 54 cm., sometimes known as 'Vincent in the Flames'. The description in the catalogue read:' . . .Taut to the breaking point, it testifies to van Gogh's struggle to master his inward turmoil .... An expression of supreme equilibrium on the brink of the abyss...