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...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...
That Kim Novak cover is one of the coldest and most frivolous paintings I have ever seen of anyone. Robert Vickrey may see Novak chewing beads-but it is more likely a representation of Vickrey chewing his paint brush in frustration at not being able to portray a truly classic physiognomy...
...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...