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Weary but affable in the Cabinet room, President Hoover sat for his portrait to Douglas Chandor, scion of Hungarian nobility, private soldier for England throughout the War, poet,* linguist, painter-extraordinary for TIME.? In the Green Room, Mrs. Hoover sat for Artist Gleb Ilyin, Russian emigre, now popular in California...
Like most painters, Painter Chandor prefers men to women as subjects. "It's an awful strain to paint women. They must constantly be amused," he says. For women who interest him as subjects he designs clothes. Women with whose ideas about posing themselves he takes issue, should feel flattered rather than other- wise. They are "worth bothering about." Of necessity an ethnologist and character-reader of sorts, he says dark-haired people have more depth of character than light-haired and make better subjects psychologically as well as pictorially. Beauty attracts him less than "interesting" faces. Says...
...Chandor work, Sir Joseph Duveen has written: "What his portraits reveal is the impression of personal dignity coupled always with charm. The material likeness is there, presented by a sound craftsman; but above all, there is the caste and character discerned by the artist whose eyes are always open to the poetic and imaginative values of his subject...
...These are the ultra violet rays, as it were, of the painter's spectrum, and the artist who, like Mr. Chandor, is not blind to them presents a genuine and sincere portrait rather than a mere likeness...
...Painter Chandor's grandfather was Count Laszlo Chandor of Hungary, kin by marriage of the great Prince Metternich. His mother was an Irishwoman. Raised in England and at heart an Englishman, he, like many another young gentleman, considered it more sporting to go into the War as a "Tommy" in the ranks than to get a commission. After he came out, the tailstroke of what had smashed him up "a bit," smashed his family's fortunes. Instead of grubbing along or "going out" to the U. S. or Canada, he squared off at life, determined to develop his strongest talent...