Art: Husband to Wife

Andre Durenceau and Mrs. Kay Kaplan are partners in painting. He does the work she gets for him. Last week his latest picture and her latest commission arrived in Manhattan in the form of a 2 ft. by 3 ft. easel painting of the Crucifixion (see cut). The work was a present from Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney to his beauteous wife Gwladys.

Lately Artist Durenceau completed for Mrs. Whitney's East River apartment dining room a series of murals containing formalized heads & torsos of huge white Negroes against a pale green background. They cost...

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