Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roses to TIME [Jan. 31] for a vivid sketch on Cole Porter...
...neat, slight, cheerful-seeming man who belies the world-weariness and oppressive sense of guilt in his paintings. He lives and works alone in a studio near Brooklyn Heights, walks the city streets or rides the subway for relaxation-stopping every now & then to make a quick little pen sketch...
Tailor's Dummies grew directly from such a sketch. It looked innocent enough until he began explaining it: "The children realized very much that these were bodies. The sight reminded me of a dummy my aunt had when I was a child, and that I always used to hit it, whirl it around. I wondered for a long time what I should put on the wall in the background. First I was going to make it a bandage ad, but then one day I saw it had to be the woman you see there, and I knew at once...
...citron and orange. By dawn Van Gogh had lost interest in finishing his work. Next day he traded his Study by Candlelight, still wet, for five Japanese prints. The dealer, perhaps worried about getting his money's worth, had Vincent fill in the unpainted space with a quick sketch of one of the Japanese prints. The painting was sold to a cleric named Salles, then apparently passed through two more owners until, in 1917, it was sold to a café on the Rue des Petits Carreaux. What happened after that, how the painting eventually got to the bistro...
...Love (music & lyrics by Allan Roberts & Lester Lee; sketch editor, Max Shulman; produced by Sammy Lambert & Anthony B. Farrell) adds another to this season's rash of revues. It is one of the rashest-expensive, elaborate, and about as intimate as army maneuvers. This is not a wise setup for Grace & Paul Hartman (Angel in the Wings). At their best as nightclub zanies, the Hartmans are dwarfed by so large a landscape-and rather flattened out by their lines...