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...Kansas City a department store sold 6,000 original Kays by advertising OIL PAINTINGS BARGAIN PRICE $2.98. Before he died he left a note: "Cremate my body and scatter the ashes to the four winds of heaven. Everything is gone. I have 15? left." ¶Robert Spencer, able portraitist, 1928 judge of the Carnegie Institute International Exhibition at Pittsburgh, blew out his brains last week at New Hope, Pa., crazed by overwork and worry...
Reginald Grenville Eves, once known as a protege of that bearded New Englander John Singer Sargent, now famed as a portraitist, submitted three slick and shiny pictures. They were instantly accepted, for Reginald Eves was up for election as an Academician. A few days later long-suffering Sir William Llewellyn discovered that they were actually what many critics have called most Academy portraits: colored photographs. Sly Reginald had pasted tissue paper enlargements on canvas, colored them with oil paint. This was certainly not cricket! The pictures were thrown out, Reginald Eves was blackballed. Said Artist Eves...
Rothenstein's Oxford Characters established him as a pencil-portraitist of the first rank, but though he painted nudes, landscapes, Cheapside costers, his lithographer's pencil has always been reserved for the faces of the great and near-great. For a Briton to be the subject of a Rothenstein portrait or a Beerbohm caricature is like membership in the Institut de France to a Frenchman. In 1899 he married Alice Knewstub, a beautiful young lady who played leads opposite Sir Herbert Tree...
Married. Mahonri Mackintosh Young, sculptor, painter, grandson of the late Mormon Brigham Young; and Dorothy Weir, painter, daughter of the late Portraitist Julian Alden Weir...
Hard is the life of a portraitist. Bitterly did British sculptor Alfred Frank Hardiman realize this last week. Year ago he won a competition to design an equestrian memorial statue of the late Field Marshal Lord Haig. In his own mind Sculptor Hardiman decided that when he was ordered to make an equestrian statue of Lord Haig he was really intended to glorify the British armies which the Field Marshal-distiller led. Accordingly he designed a heroic figure, stronger, stockier than Douglas Haig ever was, astride a monumental beast like a horse of a Roman conqueror...