Word: vickrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...investor does not confine himself to French art; the established Americans also benefit. At the Midtown Gallery, Robert Vickrey's sober portraits of people and places sold so fast (at prices up to $2,500) that the gallery was begging him for more pictures. At the other end of the abstract-realist spectrum, all but three of I. Rice Pereira's cool and calm abstractions ($1,400-$2,300 ), on display at the Nordness Gallery, were sold...
...John Piper took third prize and $750 for an impressionistic backyard-scape called Nailsworth, Gloucestershire. Honorable mentions (plus $250 each) went to Italy's Gustavo Foppiani, France's Bernard Lorjou and Bernard Buffet, Brazil's Candido Portinari, and Loren MacIver, Walter Stuempfig and Robert Vickrey of the U.S. "This," said Jurist Goodrich, "is the best competition Hallmark has held...
WHEN Cover Artist Robert Vickrey was assigned to paint the portrait of Morocco's Princess Aisha, he flew into Rabat with TIME Correspondent William McHale, his easel, paints and two fresh eggs. Vickrey paints in egg tempera, needs one egg yolk for each sitting, always carries a spare egg in case of emergency. At their hotel in Rabat, said McHale, "I asked the bartender for two fresh eggs for my friend." The bartender replied: "Your friend, he is a magician?" Said McHale: "No, he's a painter." Asked the bartender: "He paints eggs?" "No," said McHale, "he paints...
During one of Vickrey's three sittings with the princess, a real emergency developed: that was the day the hotel delivered his eggs soft-boiled. As Vickrey flew back to the U.S. with the portrait and McHale began filing the story of Princess Aisha, other TIME correspondents from Cairo to Djakarta were adding their reports on the emancipation of Moslem women. See FOREIGN NEWS, Beyond the Veil...
...Robert Vickrey's fine cover certainly shows the transition from bitchery to virtue-a grand job. Hope Harry Cohn's protégé completes the full cycle...