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...best-paid painters in the world today is Britain's James Gunn, 60. As the nation's top society portraitist, he earns more than $50,000 a year painting such famous names and faces as Field Marshal Montgomery, the Duke of Edinburgh, U.S. Ambassador Winthrop Aldrich. Last week Gunn reached a climax of his career when his official state portrait of Queen Elizabeth took the place of honor at the new Royal Academy exhibition in London...
Died. Douglas Chandor, 55, wealthy portraitist of the high-ranked and highborn; of a cerebral hemorrhage in Weatherford, Texas. British-born Artist Chandor painted the Prince of Wales (now Duke of Windsor), Queen Marie of Rumania, President Hoover and his Cabinet, President Roosevelt (in 1935 and again a month before his death), Eleanor Roosevelt (the only painting she ever permitted), Winston Churchill (bought by Bernard Baruch for $25,000, plus a sketch of the artist by the posing Churchill), Queen Elizabeth and some 300 others...
IRWIN HOFFMAN, a successful Manhattan portraitist who has been out of sight for six years studying the old masters' techniques, at last is ready to show off the results. His 26 formal portraits seem as relaxed and unposed as snapshots; his subjects are caught speaking, smiling, playing. Two of the smoothest: a winning study of a redheaded youngster totally absorbed in playing with watercolors, a musician's wife leaning attentively forward as if listening to chamber music...
...money went to Ben Nicholson for a thin, delicately colored canvas called December 5, 1949. At 58, Nicholson is the dean of British abstractionists, and whether or not his picture merits the prize, his deanship perhaps does. The son of a conservative portraitist, Nicholson usually starts with a landscape or still life, then refines it almost out of existence...
...hard to say which were more successful. Though there were only a few oil portraits in the show (Cox has done such celebrities as Harvard President James B. Conant, Judge Learned Hand, Dean Acheson), it was plain that he is no mere bread & butter portraitist. The pictures had a carefree, almost dashed-off look: lots of lively colors, some swift lines brushed in with a spare and sure touch. What they lacked in detail was made up in warmth and spontaneity. In a painting of his young daughter Kate, prim and neat in a party dress, Cox had added...