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...AARON SHIKLER, we should tell you, painted this week's cover illustration three months ago, when TIME was considering Hillary Clinton for Person of the Year. Since that time, the buzz swirling around the First Lady has shifted from her husband's impeachment to her potential Senate candidacy. But Shikler insists the illustration has nothing to do with buzz. "I did not want to take a journalistic approach," he says. "I wanted to paint her as the person I saw: a lively woman with great dignity and a great smile." Shikler spent more than an hour photographing Clinton and taking...
...craftsmanship and the tone are suggestive of Andrew Wyeth, but the new painting of Lady Bird Johnson is in fact by New Yorker Aaron Shikler, best known for the official White House portraits of President John F. Kennedy and his widow Jacqueline Onassis. Commissioned by Jane Engelhard, widow of Industrialist Charles Engelhard, the Lady Bird canvas was painted in Texas last spring when the bluebonnets were in bloom, and will be on permanent display at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin. Said Lady Bird last week: "I'm crazy about it. I feel very much in tune with...
...quality of the exhibition tends to ensure a quick run-through of the works which merit attention on the part of the artgoer. An inclusive exhibition of a private collection is bound to turn up some third-rate works such as the trompe-l'oeil offerings of one Aaron Shikler, to name the author of three objects among the several works which I found on a par with the average products of the Washington Square Arts Festival. In general, the many minor objects randomly interspersed among the major works gives the impression of an "attic" rather than "Attic" sort...
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