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Show 14 W The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, March !, 19G9 Rockwell Sick of of his studio to the snowy yard. It's all having a real effect on the art world. The people By Joanne Omang United Press International Rockwell at 75 has abandoned the gruff grandfathers and doleful little barefoot boys that made him one of America's Norman artists. best-love- That kind of stuff is dead now, he says, and I think it's about time. The reedy New Englander was in a reminiscing mood at his red bam studio in snowy Stockridge, Mass., the converted carriage house of a farmstead that once belonged to Aaron Burr. Put a Puppy In It If a picture wasnt going very well I'd put a puppy dog in it. Always a mongrel, you know, never one of the fullbred puppies. And then I'd put a bandage on its foot and that was it. All people remembered was the cute little puppy with the hurt foot. Rockwell, who was born in New York in 1894, began drawing at 18 after two years in high school. He still puts in an eight hour day. Tom Chapman, loft, Mary S. Nielson, and Wayne Wilson an the ghost will he seen in J The Canterville Ghost. The play opens at Pioneer Theatre. Ghost Haunts Pioneer Memorial Theatre The Canterville tasy, is the next produGhost cer Young People series which tion in the Pioneer Theatre opens Thursday at 4:15 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at the University of Utah theatre. For centuries, the mischievous Sir Canterville has When the Otis family bought the old English manor, took the deed to the land, the buildings and furnishings, the resident ghost, Sir Simon Canterville, was not in the contract. And that's when the fun began. Oscar Wildes classical fan- - (Margaret Sandberg), frighten the ghost more than he can frighten them. Other stars are Mary S. ONE-STO- P ART STORE 123 tail 2nd So., 3SS-17- 1 2265 3 Eat 4100 So., 278-493- And Sir Canterville sets out to frighten the new tenants more than the former. But the twins, Mirium (Susan Warburton), and Mar-ly- n Introduce a friend to art at your : claimed the castle foi his own. He has frightened Lord Canterville, played by Chip llealy, to sell the castle to Mr. Otis, who is Tom Chapman, and Mrs. Otis, Illse Perl. Nielson and Angela Thomas. The play is directed by Ralph Margetts and sets and costumes are by Dean Soderquist. The Friplay continues day at 4:15 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 10 a.m. 2 p.m. and 4:15 p.m. 1 Art Apple-Pi- e Illustration is almost dead now everyone uses photographs but I'm awfully busy, booked a year ahead. I work from exhaustion to exhaustion. But then I take three weeks off in Nassau or Mexico with Molly (his third wife) and I'm itching to get back to work. Puffing his pipe and shrugging his thin shoulders, Rockwell is the first to admit he is known for kitsch, the apple-piAmerica art of gentle humor meant to warm the hearts of sentimental grandmothers. He did 361 paintings of that genre for covers of the Saturday Evening Post, and the association continues to haunt him. e now-defun- Nobody Prints That Stuff Everywhere I go people come up and say, Gee, I loved those Post covers. Why dont you do more of them? Well, nobody prints that stuff ; its a period piece. Now its all sex or race troubles, homosexuality or college riots, and I think its a great challenge. this best of all possible worlds kind of thing of Santa Clauses going up and down chimneys and lovely children adoring their kindly grandfathers. And I liked it when I did it, but now Im sick of it. Rockwell gazed out the window I was doing two-stor- y who've been fooling around with abstraction which I think is great, fascinating for itself they're waking up. If you can do something for the coloied race or some other problem and dont just because it isn't art, you're a louse. In New York its just one galiery after another showing the latest funny thing that's happening in art. That's all right, but when people-- are dying around you it isnt so hot. Sophisticated Problems Now Weve got sophisticated problems now. dona a lot on the race situation for Look (magazine). The times changed, the Pest didnt. It died six years ago but they didn't bury it until recently. Ive Some of Rockwell's most famous paintings have been his portraits of presidents and presidential candidates, which he has done regularly for one magazine or another since 1946. President Nixon is the hardest man I ever had to paint, ever, because he is almost Hes got a mean eye. I voted for him, but hes got a mean eye. And then he has these big chestnuts in his jowls. Nixon is very touchy. He stood me up for two days in New York before I could get to see him, but when the picture came out he loved it. The cheeks are cut down a little; his nose is a little slimmer and I gave him more hair. Vastly Preferred Portrait Rockwells portrait of Lyndon Johnson was vastly preferred by the subject to another, controversial portrait done by William Hurd and rejected. I was doing one of (Republican presidential candidate Barry) Goldwater and one of Johnson. Now Goldwater is good to paint hes kind of handsome with a good chin. But Johnson can look the gloomiest, meanest, most irritable man you've ever seen. That morning, I couldnt have done him the way he looked. He was furious about something and he was rushed and only gave me 20 minutes. Im not a brave man, but I told him it wouldnt look very good if I made him look the way he felt. So he smiled, we took the pictures, and I fixed him all up shortened his ears and smoothed his neck. And thats why he loved it but he doesnt know I fixed it up. Vvo Lilyette Wear this bra without pads for gentle curves. With pads for high, rounded uplift . . . Removable push-upads give you a fulfilled bosom for the most daring decolletage. 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