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...little-known group portrait of Baritone Titta Ruffo, now 71, the late Tenor Enrico Caruso and the late Basso Feodor Chaliapin turned up in a spot where U.S. opera lovers could get a look at it-the lounge of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. In 1912 fast-painting Portraitist Tade Styka had herded the three together, daubed away between impromptu arias, somehow managed to catch the highstrung trio in a portrait that all but played its own temperamental mood music...
...scene showed how not-so-puritanical New Englanders used to carry on in foreign ports. Entitled Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam, it was painted in 1758 by a footloose portraitist named John Greenwood (who put himself in the picture, holding a candle at the door), and was recently bought by the City Art Museum of St. Louis for $8,500. Done in the days when most U.S. painters contented themselves with fashioning idealized portraits of the rich, it is, crowed Museum Director Perry T. Rathbone, "virtually the only painting by an American artist depicting everyday life in the 18th Century...
Andrew Wyeth, 31, is one of the narrowest of young U.S. artists-and one of the most widely respected. He is a portraitist who paints only his friends, and a landscapist who portrays only two localities. His new pictures, on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery last week, owed nothing to the prevailing distortions of Paris: they were in the straightforward, realistic U.S. tradition of Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper. Bleak as a December dawn, they seemed a startling contrast to the cheerful, crop-headed young man who had painted them...
...amazed at the fortune his painting brought him ("It can't be mine," he said once when someone told him his bank balance. "They've made a mistake at the bank; it must belong to someone else"). He felt miscast as a portraitist: "Portrait painting is a pimp's profession...
London's Victoria and Albert Museum was once considering the purchase of three drawings by a young Pole named Feliks Topolski. Said one committeeman: "We must draw the line somewhere!" Portraitist Augustus John answered the objection with a crack: "But can you draw the line like Topolski...