Portrait Of Charles Boyd

Portrait of Charles BoydThe studio had been built for a muralist. He had worked with very big cartoons. The studio was three stories high, and the black-crayon outlines of many sketches mazed the walls. In certain lights they seemed to waver and tremble; it was as if one were looking into a giant Chinese carved-ivory ball made of layer after layer of pierced walls cut by windows not quite in line with each other. The phenomenon irritated Charles Boyd. He often resolved to whitewash them over, or...