Word: portraitists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...divides her time between her Los An geles home and a Paris studio, at times painting landscapes, but concentrating mostly on faces. A 5-ft. 2-in. dynamo whose canvases often turn out to be bigger than she is, Artist Pike has a widely established reputation as a portraitist. Her commissions have included paintings of Art Connoisseur Norton Simon and his family, Bob Hope (who owns more than 20 of her works), Washington's National Gallery Director John Walker, Louvre Conservator Magdeleine Hours and Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti...
...paintings from Copley's early years in England are perhaps his best. Building on the skill that emerged during his last years in America, his brush became even freer, the paint more heavily modelled, and the stroke stronger and more concise. In the beginning he occupied himself as a portraitist to support his family and get himself established. But soon he had an opportunity to embark on a career as a painter of historical scenes when he was commissioned to paint well known Watson an the Shark. That work was followed by the Death of the Earl of Chatham...
This is Baltimore-born Louis Glanzman's first cover for TIME. A self-taught artist and World War II veteran (Air Force) who now lives on Long Island, he is equally known as a magazine illustrator (LIFE, Saturday Evening Post, National Geographic) and a portraitist. His likeness of Lincoln hangs in Washington's Ford Theater, where the President was fatally shot...
...Artzy" created 219 TIME covers over the past 24 years. Though he will perhaps be best remembered for his anthropomorphic machines, he was a first-rate portraitist, with a sharp, spare style and, above all, a knowing wit. His last cover portrait-of North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh-appeared on last week's issue, and was on newsstands around the world when he died. His first TIME covers were done in June of 1941, and were soon followed by a memorable series of wartime portraits, including the classic view of Germany's Admiral Karl Doenitz...
...Campbell soup can. The crucial difference is that Rivers, unlike the pop artists, does not leave his subject matter standing alone as a cool icon supposedly full of a magic banality. Rather, he espouses historical nostalgia, family relationships and concern for human tragedy. He is even a compulsive portraitist...