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...collection of 48 lush canvases, opulently framed, softly lit, richly varnished. Ten of them were mural studies of the Prophets of Israel. The rest were the latest crop of portraits of bigwigs by Britain's Frank O. Salisbury, member of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers and favorite portraitist of George...
...Oscar Florianus Bluemner has been a pet of the U. S. art world for 25 years. His friends jammed the gallery last week. Fellow artists, retired critics, dealers, fell over each other in their eagerness to tell newshawks about his cat Jochen, his accent, his cigars, his career as portraitist, architect, bartender, philosopher...
...artist named Stephen Bransgrove submitted a study of bulbous furry-footed horses entitled Clydesdales. Academicians liked it so well that they awarded it the $300 Ellen Speyer prize for animal portraiture, and knowing practically nothing about the artist, called him before the committee and elected him to membership. Respectable Portraitist Henry Rittenberg was proud to do Stephen Bransgrove, A. N. A. This spring Academician Bransgrove submitted another canvas of a man, a girl, five setters and a shotgun. Another more acute Academician discovered that, line for line, stroke for stroke, it was a copy of a picture...
Like the assassins of King Alexander, Artist Vanka is a Croat. Born in Zagreb 44 years ago, he wears a soft brown beard, likes to paint in an embroidered blouse and a black trilby hat. He is easily Yugoslavia's best known portraitist. His painting is workmanlike, able...
...picture would have the place of honor at the annual art show. Opening day, Painter George Glenn Newell's cow picture Clear and Cold had the best place. Furious, Artist Wilson tore down the cow picture, hung up his own. Hour later the cow picture was back. Portraitist Wilson, with canvas, rushed away, opened a competing one-man one-picture show in an empty 18-room house, challenged Cow Painter Newell to a duel with canvas and brush, promised a $100,000 suit...