Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started to paint this week's cover portrait of Sargent Shriver, chief of the anti-poverty campaign, Artist Ben Shahn recollected his own fairly close acquaintance with the condition of the poor. "I grew up with it," he says, "and then had another dose during the Depression...
Gorky blurs bodies off from the flat, pastry-oval visages of The Artist and His Mother, a memory portrait that bridges from surrealism to the beginnings of abstract expressionism. Klee mimes a four-footed animal in his calligraphic Mask of Fear. Kuhn creates another kind of mask-that of the silent, sad clown-and makes it a vision of man turned into useless performer, while Albright excoriates the self in his wrinkly "And God Created Man in His Own Image." Unrelated by style or influence, each artist nonetheless portrays man in the early Depression years as a desperate creature searching...
Color most small museums green with envy when it comes to purchasing costly masterpieces. With gaping holes in their collections, they are long on aspirations, short on funds. Such was the case when the Milwaukee Art Center's director, Tracy Atkinson, found a fine Gustave Courbet portrait. Milwaukee had nothing by the early 19th century French realist, but the not unreasonable price tag in New York's Knoedler Gallery read...
Under the Heel. As befits a beautician, Helena found one subject irresistible-herself. Over the years she was painted 30 times. The last portrait, by the British artist Graham Sutherland, shocked her most. It made her look, she said, like "an eagle-eyed matriarch." The portrait she most coveted escaped her. It was by Picasso. When he asked her age, she replied to his delight: "Older than you are!" But nothing pleased him. "You might not live long enough to finish it," warned Mme. Rubinstein, then 92. Picasso sketched away, tossed one on the floor. She bent to pick...
...This article was written before Timothy Leary's recent warnings about the medical dangers of LSD. Despite the changes this may have made in Miss Bieberman's life, we prefer to leave this article as it is --a portrait of an earlier, perhaps more innocent, and certainly more idealistic age in the evolution of psychedelic drugs, --The Editors...