Word: sadik
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marvin Sadik, director of the gallery, points out that the covers, although contemporary in painting styles, are closely aligned with the museum's older and more formal portraits of Presidents and policymakers, scoundrels and rogues...
...Says Sadik: "Both the magazine covers and our own portraits show people who have had the strongest impact on American life. Both, in other words, tell history-and that's where they can meet." Sa dik also believes that TIME's covers are contributing to a revival of portraiture. "In the first decade of the 20th century, art went abstract, and representational portraiture became declasse," he explains...
...every expert agrees. Vehemently disputing that the portrait is by Stuart, Marvin Sadik, director of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, says, "There isn't the slightest possibility that it could be. I would put my hand in the fire to that...
...painting resembles a known Stuart portrait of Washington, but, argues Sadik, who has admittedly seen only a black and white photograph of the work: "The quality isn't there. Stuart could paint beautifully. Whoever painted the New Bedford picture just couldn't paint that well." Moreover, says Sadik, "Stuart would never have painted such a dumb-looking Washington...
...Marvin Sadik, director of the National Portrait Gallery, thinks not. Sadik argues that the painting was actually by William Winstanley, an English artist who copied, as best he could, one of Stuart's works. In rebuttal, Clement Conger, curator of the White House, claims that the painting is an original Stuart and produces the original bill of sale as proof: "One portrait full length of the late Genl. Washington by Stewart with frame." (No one knows for sure who made out the document - and misspelled Stuart's name.) Conger has neither the money nor the desire to undertake...