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...VOICE THROUGH A CLOUD, by Denton Welch. A crippling auto accident, which ended Welch's studies as a promising painter, launched a writing career that comes to flower in this terrible memoir of the in valid years that ended in death...
...historians have good reason to be thankful that the 16th century painter and architect Giorgio Vasari wrote about as well as practiced his profession...
...editors is to give TIME readers an interesting variety of style and treatment in the presentation of cover subjects. In the past year we have used the works of twelve different artists on the cover. This week we introduce another: Iowa-born, Connecticut-dwelling Robert Templeton. A painter who is not offended if a viewer remarks that his realism has a pop quality, Templeton divided the picture of Los Angeles into separate images: the freeway ("a poetic thing to see"), crime in the streets (Mrs. Templeton posed for that panel), Watts, the ever-present signs, and the area...
...Rockland exhibition rapidly took on the overtones of a family reunion, and the whole clan was on hand to relive old memories. For not only did N.C. put his children into his paintings, he also turned his children into painters. "You had to paint in our household," says Ann, who modeled for the little girl in The Scottish Chiefs and is the wife of Wyeth-trained Artist John McCoy II. Henriette, who was one of three boys in her father's illustration for Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger, is a painter and the wife of a painter...
Scandalized Scandinavians. While hanging on at Louisiana's tough Angola Penitentiary, Labat changed himself from a semiliterate hospital worker to something of a poet and painter. In 1963, Angola officials handed him a world fame of sorts by barring his correspondence with Mrs. Solveig Johanson, a Swedish housewife in Stockholm who had become interested in the case. One official claimed that Louisiana law forbade Negroes to correspond with whites. This was later revised by the statement that prison rules limited access to any prisoner on Death Row to his immediate family and his legal and spiritual counselors. The incident...