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...good thing going for him: a fashion-model agency, with its ready-made string of dates; it thrived for 13 years before he sold out. He dabbled with movies and got some critical praise for his 1952 production of Face to Face, which featured his second wife, Actress-Painter Marjorie Steele (who divorced him last year, won a whopping settlement of some $2,500,000). Then he tried his hand at playwriting with an adaptation of Jane Eyre for Broadway. It flopped...
...explaining himself, the realist painter nowadays has to answer two realistic questions. Why does he not leave exact representation to the camera, which has been perfected to the point that it can catch the most fleeting expression, can render color in hues no longer dishonestly brilliant, and can see things in virtual darkness? And why, if he must "get back to the image.'' does he not at least employ the gains of imagination and emotion brought to painting by impressionism, surrealism and abstraction? A picture called The Window Box, on display at Manhattan's Maynard Walker Gallery...
...painter of The Window Box (and 31 others in the exhibit) is John Chumley, 33, who lives in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley and never had a New York show before. He grew up around Knoxville, Tenn., where he had one major interest-football-and one minor one-drawing...
...until a knee injury eliminated him from football at the University of Kentucky that he began to concentrate on art. He studied at the Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, under a great teacher. Painter Walter Stuempfig...
...When Painter Arshile Gorky died in 1948, the New York Times gave the story a mere 15 lines-and perhaps it would not have run even that much had it not believed, mistakenly, that the artist was "a first cousin of Maxim Gorky, the writer." Hindsight proves that the press and public sadly wronged Arshile Gorky. As two new shows in Manhattan demonstrate, he was one of the significant U.S. painters of this century...