100 New Yorkers of the 1970s

sons at 8 o'clock in the morning to make himself get up early. Today he gets up strictly to paint, and does so with such skill and efficiency that h

ous. His works have graced nearly 70 one-man shows. His portraits of former First Lady Pat Nixon and other celebrity wives have appeared on the cover of Time magazine. He has written

e shaded with tones of his native Czechoslovakia. "In 1948,

ve these thoughts in mind is myself," he answers, smiling frankly, "because I always ask myself whether these reas

. He works very rapidly, with intense concentration. "I don't paint after the afternoon," he expla

ays De Ruth: "she would sit in the in the windowsill in her bra and slip. Then one day I called over to her, 'Would you like to g

e, as intelligent as possible, considerate, and somebody in the arts, or

who has painted Ethel Kennedy, Eleanor McGovern, and the late Martha Mitchell for Time. "They're much more concerned to participate. I don't think it's necessarily some

, John Mitchell - posed for De Ruth inside the Watergate Building during the heig

mer he began to teach painting in New Mexico - something he has wanted to try for a long time. A passionate skier,

any of women," says the artist with a radiant smile, addin

e myself without this mixture that the West Side is." De Ruth has been going to the same Chinese laundry for 28 years - Jack's

ver be discouraged by anyone or anything," he says. Then, to balance his remarks, he relates an anecdote ab

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