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...Hamptons form anything but a school. Alexander Brook still paints tender nudes from life, works in a former stable in the old whaling town of Sag Harbor, and putts around in his Model T and 1935 Rolls-Royce. Realists such as Fairfield Porter, Paul Georges and Moses Soyer live within a short drive of Abstractionists Ludwig Sander, Corrado Marca-Relli and James Brooks. Even New Yorker Cartoonists Charles Addams and Saul Steinberg find the region warmly inclusive...
...RAPHAEL SOYER-Associated American Artists, 605 Fifth Ave. at 49th. With fine-line shadings and blank areas of light, Soyer brings out the fullness of body and the spiritual vacuity of New York girlhood. Past teen-age but not quite adult, his would-be students and sometime art ist's models display the wistful grace of instinctive, empty gestures. Sixteen etchings. Through...
...maimed Lavinia, daughter of Titus Andronicus, painted by Larry Rivers (for Show Magazine) to celebrate Shakespeare's 400th birthday. Willem de Kooning's Rosy-Fingered Dawn at Louse Point cocks the abstract expressionist's eye at nature. There is even the genial easel tradition in Raphael Soyer's portrait of his painting twin Moses...
...book, Soyer lists his cherished qualities in painting as "love, tenderness, intimacy." His portraits are almost always of friends or family, and in one unusually dramatic canvas showing a group of people awaiting the end of the world, he painted himself surrounded by those he loves. He likes to paint lovers and young married couples, and if there is pain, he will lay that bare too. He painted one woman over a number of years, starting when she was 18, and then at various milestones and crises in her life from her marriage through her pregnancy and divorce...
...teachers, Soyer remembers vividly George Bellows and Robert Henri, and most especially he remembers the night that Henri introduced him to a Daumier drawing of hungry men and women and their sad-eyed children. He immediately felt the "sympathy with which the artist drew this group." Soyer has always had this same sympathy for his own sad-eyed figures. They often seem overwhelmed by their own thoughts, caught in a moment of reverie when, while most turned in upon themselves, they reveal themselves the most. Of his style, Soyer says: "I like an artist who talks with a low voice...