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...lean little sparrow hawk of a man, sharp-beaked, with bright hazel eyes, Menaboni roams the Georgia swamps and forests, hunting birds with a .410 shotgun, a camera, traps and a sketch pad (he has special state and federal permits to collect two of each species a year for his pictures). Whenever possible, Menaboni draws his birds from life, to get the action right, sometimes dispatches them to do the plumage. The fact that he can keep them fresh in a refrigerator, he says, is a big advantage that Audubon would have appreciated. Another and greater advantage is his ability...
...this letter Ye made a watercolor sketch of what had happened to his church and hospital. It is reproduced here...
...Picasso, who declined to send anything to the show, might have conveyed more with a quiet little sketch of either the chicken or the rat. Yet Paris gallerygoers, bored stiff with disciples of past masters, were welcoming Lorjou's rebellion last week by beating a path to his big, brash canvas...
...born in steady, suburban Westfield, N.J., attended Colgate and the University of Pennsylvania for a while until he hit on what seemed a better idea: professional art school. One day he sold a decorative sketch to The New Yorker, soon began to sell them cartoons too. Nowadays, reliable as anything, he does 40 to 50 cartoons a year for the magazine...
...best recent Addams drawings, and Afternoon in the Attic, a selection of congenially morbid little pieces by John Kobler, which is illustrated by Addams. In addition to his essays on such subjects as the Grand Guignol and Madame Tussaud's Waxworks, Kobler includes a biographical sketch of his illustrator...