The story of Art for War's sakerepresented since Pearl Harbor by Thomas Hart Benton's angry anti-Nazi allegories (TIME, April 6), by Government poster campaigns, by art classes in the Armyis not complete without the case of big, 50-year-old John Carroll.
Painter Carroll is, as it happens, mainly known as a painter of womentilt-nosed madonnas who suggest fragile wisps of a moonlight reverie. Painted in foamy tones, with appealing childlike faces and flickering bodies trailing lingerie like the draperies of an El Greco saint, Carroll's women sell like hotcakes at $1,000 up. (An Italian laborer once slashed one from its frame and took...
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