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What first fired his imagination was the famed Armory Show of 1913. Then and there, he decided to be a modern painter. But to train his hand to follow his esthetic vision required enormous feats of selfdiscipline. Davis told how in 1927 he "nailed a rubber glove, an electric fan and an egg beater to a table and, like Monet with his haystack, stuck with that single subject for a whole year." What he learned was how to explore, distort and transform the objects into endless arrangements on the canvas. His aim was abstraction, but his eye was riveted...
Bravado & Bravery. The idea that portraits were history came naturally to Western Painter George Catlin. In the 1830s he resolved to assemble a pictorial record of the last golden years of the Indians freely living their own lives. He rode across hundreds of miles of unmapped prairie, visited 48 tribes and painted 600 pictures. His Indian Boy is a triumph of photographic realism blended with psychological insight. There is a trace of bravado in the boy's stance, backed by ultimate bravery in the clenched right fist. Around the eyes and mouth is the faint hint of sadness...
Died. Giorgio Morandi, 73, Italian painter following the 19th century impressionist style, a self-effacing recluse who spent his days composing serene, Cézanne-like still lifes of bottles, vases and flowers, which brought as much as $10,000 on the open market but which he usually sold to dealers for less than $200 because "I would consider it an immoral exploitation if I accepted such sums"; after a long illness; in Bologna...
MICHELANGELO THE PAINTER by Valeria Mariani. 151 pages, 86 color plates. Kimberly Dormann. For properly patriotic Italians, 1964 is the 400th anniversary not of the birth of Shakespeare but of the death of Michelangelo. The resulting commemorative volume, casually displayed on anyone's espresso table, is guaranteed to take the prize this summer-though perhaps only for price ($125) and awkwardness (14 in. by 11 in. by 3 in., weighing 11 Ibs.). The text is learned, dull and clumsily translated. What almost justifies the outrageous price is the color plates, which display every surviving work that Michelangelo painted, including...
...William Zorach, sculptor, and Marguerite Zorach, his wife, painter and tapestry-maker...