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...leopard (or something that looked like a leopard) was sighted in some bushes by a plane. An hour later it was spotted by a motorist in an open field. Though one hunting party put the torch to 40 acres of brush, the big cat remained at large. That night, one M. D. Douglass swore he saw the fugitive sneaking back into the zoo; attendants hung chunks of drugged meat on nearby fences, but the varmint went unseen and uncaught...
...anything amiss. When told about the mistake, the Colonel ordered the Spanish Republican flag removed "and the right one painted on at once." To one of his aides he whispered hoarsely: "Be sure to get the name of that painter in California." A Spanish airport worker grabbed paint and brush and did a quick patchup job that made everybody breathe easier. Still struggling to regain his aplomb later in the day, Visitor McCormick made a little speech in which he referred to Franco as "the greatest European general of our times...
Healy had been more concerned with accuracy than with art. His likenesses were invariably "like" and a bit flattering besides. In photography's infancy that in itself was enough to make him a success. But only naw & then, as in his Sherman and Jackson, did Healy's brush go more than skin-deep...
...show proved that Levine was certainly a lively painter. His composition was clever and his colors bright. Occasionally, when the editorial mood hit him too hard, he began wagging his brush. Then the result was little better than partisan cartooning, e.g., a soapbox snarl at the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, titled Reception in Miami. But when he chose to paint subjects instead of targets-the grimy street corners of downtown America, a littered store window, a peddler's sway-backed nag or a weary tombstone cutter-Levine had something of his own to say. And he said...
...project, in the '305, that gave Levine his first real chance to paint. He took a studio back in Boston's soot-filmed slums and began working with the tense brush strokes and smoldering colors of the expressionists he most admired: Rouault, Soutine, Kokoschka...