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...vigorous personal life. Bald and robustly stocky, he is soft-spoken off the printed page and dedicated to what he considers "oldfashioned absolutes": honor, patriotism, good manners. He loves tennis, riding, shooting, skiing and salmon fishing-interests he shares enthusiastically with his third wife Nackey, a talented painter, sculptress and horsewoman who is the granddaughter of the late newspaper tycoon E. W. Scripps...
...would be hard to think of a less "American" painter than Bailey, 41, who teaches at Yale, where he had earlier studied under Josef Albers. Modest in scale and completely unrhetorical, his pictures seem European-the work, perhaps, of a less mature Balthus, minus the overtones of perverse eroticism. Their strength lies partly in the extreme discipline of organization that Bailey can muster. He is a perfectionist, so much so that the right hand of the girl in Listener had to be scraped off and repainted "about 100 times" before he was satisfied with it (perhaps he shouldn...
...gravitated to New York, where he rapidly became involved with the dominant orthodoxy of Abstract Expressionism. But in 1958, after a visit to Italy, he began to realize that he was still at bottom a realist draftsman. "I did not mean to become the kind of naive or modest painter of nice pictures the word realist seems to lead people to expect. I meant to create strong, aggressive paintings that would compete with the best of abstraction...
Right Angle. Painter Alfred Leslie is even blunter in his rejection of photographic aids. "In the 20th century," he says, "our reality comes through instrumentation. People believe things only when the things have been qualified by technology. So you can be convicted in court by a photo taken of you, even though 20 people say you were 100 miles away. This is because people feel that a photograph has more truth than personal testimony." Leslie's pictorial pragmatism is such that, for a current painting of the death of his poet friend Frank O'Hara...
...student academy piece; it is recognizable, though only just, as a mock Titian. But behind it one can sense manic obstinacy, as though De Chirico were trying to root himself in the past and abolish the present. Significantly, it bears a Latin inscription: "De Chirico, the best painter, painted this...