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...Pushman studio on Manhattan's 57th Street, shrouded in a velvety dimness, are all the beautiful things which Artist Pushman loves and exquisitely paints. For 20 years they have been appearing in his still lifes: tiny porcelain vases, lustrous Aegean flasks, Tibetan figurines, pieces of splendid brocade, the yellowed pages of ancient books. In his tallboy, lined with crimson plush, are row upon row of Buddhas, Oriental gods of war, of laughter, or mercy, of unimaginable things. Mr. Pushman says gently...
...Artist Pushman is 65. He won his first scholarship 51 years ago at the Royal Academy in Constantinople, came with his family to the U.S. when he was 18. He studied in Paris for nine years, there confirmed his devotion to the man he considers the greatest of all still-life painters, Jean Chardin. His luminous, ale-brown eyes flash when he speaks of the exactions of technique, which so many modern artists seem to neglect. Last week he had on his easel what looked like a well-composed impressionist painting, the color masses and emergent figures just right...
...faultless technique, but most of all by an extraordinary gift for color harmonies of plum reds, jade greens and opulent blues, he endows each small painting with a kind of finality of mood. Pushman admirers are quieted, looking into the silence he frames for them. He has no interest in the prize shows, none in modern painting or painters. He is one of two painters* who in 117 years have refused election to the National Academy...
...Depression's depth, 16 Pushmans were put on sale at his gallery, the Grand Central Art Galleries in Manhattan. Within 24 hours all 16 were sold at Pushman prices ($3,500 to $10,000). Sometimes called "the highest paid painter per square inch in the U.S.," Artist Pushman lives quietly with Mrs. Pushman and their two sons in an apartment on Central Park West...
Very rarely Artist Pushman makes a statement about one of his paintings. He did so for a famous Pushman called The Book of Life. "In this picture," he said, "there are several objects, namely, an iridescent vase containing a fading rose, a figure of a saint from the medieval ages, with a background of an ancient textile, against which rests an open manuscript-the last page of the Book of Life...