The Washington times., 1938-01-19

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NOBODY in his family was
~ even an artist, though he
has two brothers, one now in
Hollywood, who are writers,
and perhaps young Warshaw-
sky might never have. been
painter but for one of those
quirks of fate. A fate which
sent Palmer Cox to Cleveland,
offering prize for the best
drawn Brownies (you have to
be over 80 to remember this)
and WarShawsky got second
prize!
WARSHAWSKY, and right
w now we will begin to call
him by his nickname, "Buck"-
it's easier-does portraits, as
well as landscapes and still life.
He refuses, however, to do
young and pretty women.
"It doesn't matter what you
do with them, you are licked
from the beginning" he told us,
IF they are pretty, they expect
, you to make them beautiful. If
they are not pretty, they insist
on appearing that way-it's no
USE"
But-children and old people
he revelS in, for "they both have
a formed character" Children,
he will tell you, are like a fore
word of a book, "a promise of
what one will eventually find"
He prefers to have the opinion
Of persons who know little about
art, for he believes there is
nothing to know about art. For
any way one takes it, if honestly,
1t is nothing but an expression
Of ones feelings"
WARSHAWSKY mixes so much
" ribbing with his serious con-
verSation that it is difficult to
keep up with him. He informed
us that blue was his favorite
color, one reason, because he
had bought so much blue paint
and hadn't used it up. Secondly,
all his clothes were blurred with
it, which did away with his
wearing Smock coats, but finally
confessed that blue was his best
love because it was the color of
the sky.
He adores color! In Paris he
has a spacious studio and house
with a garden that is a gem of
beauty, but the moment Paris
becomes gray, cold and dead
with winter, he gets into his
car and departs for warmer and
brighter climes. He has always
done this and once, in not so
different days. he arrived in
Normandy, put up at a wee
pension, did the portrait of the
owners daughter, then did those
of the owner and his wife,
which s'kept me there, with no
expense to myself, until May"
LIE pays very little attention
IL to the eyes in a subject, for
he knows that eyes can be dis
ciplined with ones will, but the
hands and the mouth never lie
and these are what he studies
for the soul of a portrait. He has
his pictures in the Luxem-
bourg in Paris, and was deco
rated by the French govern
ment with the Legion Of Honor.
All of which caused, so he says,
no comment in Paris, but quite
a bit here.
He thinks that painters
should, like shoemakers, "stick
to their lasts" and told the
amusing story of the famous
marine painter, E. Hudson, who
was finally persuaded beyond
his will to do portrait of a
lovely daughter of a friend of
his. But" warned Hudson,
IT warn you, she will look like a
boat"
W7ARSHAWSKY differs from
w most people about helping
gifted youth. He believes that
youth urged on by dynamic de-
termination, if they have any
thing to give the world, will do
so, come what may. 1t is the
older geniuses, those who have
no longer the strong will, who
are bit tired and no longer feel
like struggling, that should be
made comfortable, with no cares
and time to give the world their
mature art.
At the moment, he is resting
before holding an exhibit at
the Rinehardt Galleries in New
York. He is the guest of Col.
and Mrs. Curt Schiffeler. He
met Colonel Schiffeler years ago
in Paris, and promptly formed
an everlasting friendship. "I
liked him." he told us, "he al.
ways managed to eat regularly"
Quite a person is Warshawsky,
and we enjoyed meeting him.