Art: Painter Chandor

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Commissioned by TIME to paint the Hoover Cabinet, the first panel of which is published this week (see front cover), Painter Douglas Chandor of London, Manhattan, Philadelphia, Detroit and Washington, D. C. is like Author Chesterton's Noah—everything "on the largest scale;" that is, in the grand manner.

Now 32, he emerged from art school in 1921. Before the year was out, Queen Mary had visited a London gallery to gaze upon the first oil portrait her eldest son had sat for since childhood. King...