Word: hoban
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...pursue his subject a block away-to that upholstered saloon for the rented-Cadillac set called 21. Despite the convenience. McPhee's assignment deserves some kind of endurance prize, for he saw his subject in a gamut of moods: testy, comradely, hostile, candid, suspicious, trusting. Cover Artist Russell Hoban too, spent hours with his man, and sought to catch-in one portrait-some of the restless complexity of Gleason's character...
Nevertheless, let Mr. Hoban remain a member in good standing of the neoglassicists. He did his best...
Illustrations for the story are by Russell Hoban, 36, who is such a Salinger fan that he and his wife named two of their daughters after Salinger characters, Esmé and Phoebe. In painting how Zooey, Franny, Mrs. Glass and Holden look to him, Hoban was fearful of violating "their private rights to exist in the reader's mind," and tried to be scrupulous to the author. "Salinger, I think, is a man without eyelids," says Hoban. "All of his material comes to him so painfully; it costs so much to write, more than anyone else who comes...
THIS week Artist Russell Hoban, 36, joins the ranks of fourscore artists who have painted TIME covers. Though he also paints industrial subjects, Hoban is best known for his sports pictures, such as this week's of Oscar Robertson. Watching "the Big O" shoot 13 baskets in Syracuse, Hoban concluded: "He makes it look easy-nothing heroic." But in his paintings, says Hoban, "I try to go for a heroic quality. You could take the basketball out of Robertson's hand and put a sword in and he's in a classic stance for a soldier. What...