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Oscar Epfs was the euphonious name of the painter whose one-man show just closed at the Librairie Marthe Voshy in Paris. Only eight of the 40 pictures were sold, but that was pure velvet to Artist Epfs. He is actually Lawrence Durrell, author of the Alexandria Quartet, and it seems that he has been painting since 1930 ("but never every day, only by attacks") in a style that ranges from Impressionist through surrealist to abstract. What made him decide to have the show? "You can give just so many away. Friends really don't want any more...
Goldberg began to draw at four, and had his only formal art lessons from a San Francisco sign painter when he was twelve. He studied engineering, and in 1904 undertook his first professional task: helping to design San Francisco city sewers. He found that he preferred a job sweeping floors at the Chronicle. "I kept submitting cartoons to them," he once said, "but when I was cleaning out the wastebaskets in the art department, I'd find my cartoons down there at the bottom. Finally they accepted one of my drawings. I've been doodling away ever since...
Died. Henry Varnum Poor, 82, muralist, ceramist, painter, architect and art teacher; of a heart attack; in New City, N.Y. Known first for his pottery, Poor in the mid-1930s took his brush to Washington, D.C., where he executed twelve panels for the Department of Justice building and a heroic mural entitled Conservation of American Wildlife for the Department of the Interior building. Before long he had developed such a following that in 1939, when Pennsylvania State College commissioned him to paint a 275-sq.-ft. fresco of Abraham Lincoln signing the Morrill Act, the contract stipulated that the public...
Died. Harrison Cady, 93, painter and illustrator, best known for Peter Rabbit, Lightfoot the Deer, Reddy Fox, Jimmy Skunk and the rest of the menagerie in Thornton Burgess's children's books; in Manhattan...
Ruben's Life of Marie de Medici by Jacques Thuillair. 158 pages, plus 108 color pages. Abrams. $125. In 1622 history's richest and most lavish painter was retained by the vainest and most powerful woman in France to create an appropriate tribute to herself. The result -more than a score of enormous panels-now fills a whole room of the Louvre. There visitors are free to ramble past acres of pearly, naked flesh and hectares of jewels and velvet, observing Marie, attended by nymphs, monsters, peacocks, courtiers, gods, satyrs and angels, as she makes a near mythological...