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...small in size, immensely subtle in drawing, seemed distant from the large canvases and bold polemics of most New York painting. He had run through a number of incarnations: he supported himself as an illustrator in Chicago and New York after 1908 and was for a time a social portraitist before turning to more general figure and street scenes in the '20s and '30s. But Tobey was best known for his "white writing"-visions of abstract space wrought in thousands of strokes by a fine Japanese brush and bearing a more than accidental resemblance to Oriental calligraphy...
Died. Jo Mielziner, 74, versatile Broadway set designer (Death of a Salesman, South Pacific, The King and I, Gypsy); of a stroke; in Manhattan. The son of a portraitist, Mielziner studied painting as a youth, then went onstage to get the actor's point of view. He prepared hundreds of sketches until he achieved the design and the lighting that would "make people grasp a situation as quickly as possible." A five-time Tony Award winner and a one-time Academy Award winner (color art direction for the movie Picnic), he always aimed, as a set designer...
...course, the English bourgeoisie loved him for that, and he went on to become the most successful portraitist in the nation, setting down the faces of his friends-poets from Yeats to Dylan Thomas, writers like Shaw, collectors like the flustered and bigoted American John Quinn-with a picaresque dash which, in the celebrity portraiture of his later years, turned into a routine of dispiriting feebleness. Like John at his zenith, Holroyd creates a suite of sardonic and sympathetic verbal portraits. Between the figures flow the ingredients of that most difficult of works-the biography of a grandiose failure...
...that pocked bun of a face, surrounded by his Praetorian Guard of chittering ingenues, is to realize that things do turn out well after all. The right level has been found. New York-not to speak of Rome, Lugano, Paris, Tehran and SkorpiÓs-needed a society portraitist. The empty angel of the '60s has effortlessly become the Boldini of the '70s. The alienation of the artist, of which one heard so much talk a few years ago, no longer exists for Warhol: his ideal society has crystallized round him and learned to love his entropy...
...portraitist, Ilya Repin painted Tolstoy and Conductor Anton Rubinstein with great panache...