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| | TIME.com: Men, Women & Horses -- Jan. 19, 1942 -- Page 1 |
 | | But exuberant Jon Corbino, who this week opened an exhibition of turbulent canvases on Manhattan's 57th Street, loves to paint conflicts and catastrophes, swarming canvases in which full-blown nudes and horses writhe and rear in the throes of floods, shipwrecks, stampedes. |
 | | He worked his way through Manhattan's Art Students League and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts taking jobs as a dishwasher, cook and soda jerker, kept on painting in his own way, modeled his methods not on the French Impressionists or the U.S. Realists, but upon Delacroix and Tintoretto. |
 | | But they had to admit that Jon Corbino was not afraid of big subjects, and that he was one of the soundest draftsmen in the U.S. Today collectors and museums clamor for his canvases at $300 up, and he is a member of the haughty National Academy of Design (TIME, Jan. 12). |
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