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Peale longed to be the official artist of the Revolution, the portraitist of its heroes -- especially of Washington, whom he painted over and over again with stiff, idolizing devotion for more than 20 years. It is a small example of the utter unfairness of art that for all his labors it was not Peale who created Washington's definitive icon for posterity but rather Gilbert Stuart -- a better artist but also a Tory who had cut and run for England when the cannons fired and only came back, as he put it, "to make a fortune by Washington alone...
...LIFE assignments, Eisenstaedt flourished as a witness to our time, as the title of one of his books would have it: the guest at a sharecropper's home as well as at the White House, the recording angel of Hollywood and the fond chronicler of suburbia, the portraitist of everyone from Shaw to Kennedy...
...Robison's emotional promises, but her restrained wit and craftsman's ear for dialogue make An Amateur's Guide to the Night a quiet treat. It doen't light up new arenas of expression, but it does help establish her as a master of the minister and a portraitist...
...early next year. Signature lines of kitty sheets, towels, ceramic cat planters, calendars, mugs, watches, umbrellas, T shirts, sweatshirts, stationery and housewares move swiftly at gift stores and specialty shops like Purrfection in New York and the Cat House in Los Angeles. Mimi Vang Olsen, 43, a New York portraitist, will immortalize an owner's beloved cat in vibrant, primitivist oils for $2,500. There is a pet motel in Prairie View, Ill., that offers apartments, roomettes and imperial suites to guest cats for up to $6.50 a day: letters sent by the vacationing owners are read...
...York City, in a hall that he rather grandiosely labeled the Indian Gallery. In his own day nobody of any consequence thought of him as a major painter-least of all Catlin himself. Even though he had established himself by the 1820s as a workaday miniaturist-portraitist in Philadelphia, he freely conceded that others were better at what he called "the limited and slavish branch of the arts in which I am wasting my life and substance for a bare living...