Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reading of Captain Carpenter's heroism [June 17], I rummaged through old sports programs for the one of the 1959 Army-Navy game. Under the cadet's portrait is the statement, "Bill seems destined for leadership." Never has such an accurate prophecy been made...
...death in the summer of 1890, Vincent Van Gogh was in and out of the asylums at Aries and Saint-Rémy. Released, he traveled to Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris and stayed at a café owned by a couple named Ravoux. There he painted a lucid portrait of the couple's 16-year-old daughter before he lapsed into the madness that took his life. Portrait de Mademoiselle Ravoux survived, was bought in 1921 for $20,000, along with two other Van Gogh works, by a sharp-eyed Pennsylvania clergyman named Theodore Pitcairn. Last week...
...samples of pop and op.*In the library of the Javitses' Park Avenue place there also hangs a striking, feline oil of Marion by Boris Chaliapin. The mouth is sensual and slightly parted, the eyes tigerish and burning bright. But why, the startled subject asked on seeing the finished portrait, why on earth the golden arrow through her head? "Normally," came Chaliapin's cryptic reply, "when you shoot someone with an arrow, he bleeds. With you, the arrow only changes to gold...
Conservative Split. Geldzahler is a plump, underdone dumpling in granny spectacles who is so appealing that he has been rendered by several artists as a pop statue. Even French Artist Martial Raysse entered a portrait of the U.S. commissioner at the Biennale. Geldzahler chose a diverse group of hard-edge and stained-canvas abstractionists-Helen Frankenthaler, Jules Olitski, and Ellsworth Kelly-and included, perhaps for poignancy, Roy Lichtenstein's cartoons. He wound up his brief introduction to the U.S. catalogue with the crashing conclusion that "their experiments are successful. They paint beautiful pictures." When all Americans lost, Geldzahler petulantly...
...mock-heroic tension of the game has been soundly established when Director Cook brings on his ace. Henry Fonda, in a lip-twitching portrait of a loser, appears as a homesteader en route to a 40-acre chunk of Texas with his plucky little wife (Joanne Woodward) and his young son. Though he has sworn off cards, Fonda breaks into a cold sweat as soon as he sniffs the deck, possibly because he shuffles so poorly. The imminent loss of his life savings brings on a heart attack and, with a final $20,500 pot at stake, Joanne primly takes...