Nina Hamnett was ‘deadly serious about painting’, as she put it in
Laughing Torso, a collection of her reminiscences published in 1932. A photograph of her as a young woman in her studio shows her standing with confidence, obscuring her easel, in wide-legged crêpe trousers and sandals, a cigarette in hand, her expression both earnest and ironic. At art school, under the tutelage of William Nicholson, she learned still life, placing objects – everyday, domestic things: an inkwell, an hydra jug, a two-handled cup, a small glass of white wine – not-quite squarely within the frame, the objects cropped at their edges. She disobeyed the conventions of the genre: no luminous porcelain, no flowers; the paintings do not glow. Her palette was London rooftops on a grey afternoon, solid browns and gloomy greens reflecting the material conditions of the paintings’ setting: a wooden tabletop in a rented room in Fitzrovia. In portraiture, she went beyond formality, finding ways to conv
Columbus police have arrested a man believed to be responsible for the shooting death of a South Linden man on Saturday.
Anthony Butts, 30, of South Linden, died at 11:18 p.m. Saturday after being shot on the 1000 block of East 18th Avenue about 10 minutes earlier.
A second person, later identified as 22-year-old Anthony Wilkes, of the Far East Side, was found wounded inside a vehicle at the corner of 17th and Cleveland Avenues. He was taken to an area hospital in critical condition.
Detectives later charged Wilkes with murder in connection with Butts death, according to Franklin County Municipal Court records.
The deaths of two men in separate shootings Saturday on the Northeast Side of Columbus brings the city to 74 homicides this year, outpacing last year s record year by more than two months.
In 2020, Columbus deadliest year on record with 174 homicides, it wasn t until July 26th that the 74th homicide was recorded.
Around 10 p.m. Saturday, a man died from a gunshot wound he had sustained in a shooting reported around 3:25 p.m. in the Whispering Oaks apartments near Fenton Street.
Columbus police officers who responded to that shooting in the 4200 block of Dresden Street found Elliot Raspberry, 51, with a gunshot wound. Raspberry was transported to a nearby hospital, where he died several hours later.