Word: quintanilla
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...Luis Quintanilla had the advantage of having extremely vocal friends who were not willing to let the world forget that a very talented young man was in danger of lying in a Spanish jail until...
Mary Hoover, who had worked with Luis Quintanilla on some of his Madrid frescoes, brought a heavy package of etched zinc plates to the U. S. Author Hemingway paid for pulling a small edition of proofs, and Pierre Matisse was glad to give them a Manhattan showing. John Dos Passos wrote a short, able introduction to the catalog. Ernest Hemingway, still hot under his size 16 collar, pounded out a 1,500-word essay that described his friend's plight, his art, and formed a collector's item. Excerpt...
...this may possibly be a good time to suggest that a small tax be levied on the use of the word revolution, the proceeds to be given to the defence of, say, such people as Luis Quintanilla, by all those who write the word and never have shot nor been shot at; who never have stored arms nor filled a bomb, nor have discovered arms nor had a bomb burst among them; who never have gone hungry in a general strike, nor have manned streetcars when the tracks are dynamited; who never have sought cover in a street trying...
...Luis Quintanilla is a radical who keeps his politics out of his art. With excellent line and considerable humor he shows the daily routine of the Spanish people to whom he has devoted his life. Among his best plates : a naked toothsome young wife kissing her lover through the bars of a window while her fat husband snoozes with his back turned; two bewildered young Basques showing their humble bundles, their passports at a frontier railroad station; a fat Madrid dandy getting a shoe shine at a café; a chunky street acrobat holding a whale of a woman high...
...jail Luis Quintanilla is well fed, is allowed pencils and paper, is at present working on the portrait of his warden. The warden is proud as a peacock...