Word: portraitists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most fashionable portraitist now active is René Bouché (rhymes with touché). He may also be the best. Last week at Manhattan's Alexander Iolas Gallery, Bouché had on view a brilliant display of what his flickering, sweet-and-sour brush can do. Recent subjects: Truman Capote, Isak Dinesen, Anita Loos, Elsa Maxwell, Mrs. William Paley, the Duchess of Windsor, Lady Astor, the Duchess of Argyll and Alexander Calder...
...exploitation by American industry. Calling themselves the "Molly Maguires" after the famed Irish rebel,*they operated outside the law, tried and condemned opponents on their own. Blythe, who was obviously no labor sympathizer, records one such drumhead trial. John O'Brien Inman was the son of the prominent portraitist Henry Inman. Oddly enough, he himself never made much of a reputation. But his Moonlight Skating in Central Park is pure champagne: chill, sparkling, heady. And like the others in the exhibition, his picture helps fill in the panoramic sweep of history with specific detail, showing just how things were...
...would per mit himself a little twist . of a smile : "When I want to see a great sculptor, I have to look in the mirror." Critics and collectors often agreed with Epstein's self-appraisal, kept him comfort ably supplied with commissions. He proved himself the greatest portraitist of modern sculpture, immortalized hosts of the great (including the frozenly quizzical Somerset Maugham and the electric-haired "Ein") with dashing busts that almost seemed to breathe. "What could be more interesting," he demanded, "than a human face?" Epstein's female portraits were often busts in undress; he proved that...
Charles Willson Peale, portraitist, scientist and revolutionary idealist, had the same expansive spirit as his good friend Thomas Jefferson. He raised his children to be geniuses, saw them more or less painfully sink to the level of ordinary men and women. Young Raphaelle found solace, as he sank, in parlor games, ventriloquism, a pretty shrew of a wife, his art, and the bottle. He turned restlessly to science. He patented a preservative for ships' timbers and a system for heating houses, developed a "new theory of the universe" which attributed the movement of astral bodies in space to electrical...
Died. William Oberhardt, 75, charcoal portraitist of distinguished sitters, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, Warren G. Harding, Richard M. Nixon. Cardinal Spellman, Bernard Baruch, John Foster Dulles, William Howard Taft, Charles Dana Gibson, Luther Burbank, Thomas A. Edison; of a heart attack; in Pelham, N.Y. "Obie" Oberhardt's portrait of the late Joseph G. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, onetime (1903-11) Speaker of the House of Representatives, appeared on TIME'S first cover, March 3, 1923. Drawing VIPs one after another in one-hour sessions, Oberhardt learned to control his awed nerves by recalling the dry advice...