Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At some point in the mid-1960s, artist Don Bachardy began to make a regular practice of having the sitter for a portrait-drawing ...

For nearly seven decades, painter Don Bachardy has lured Hollywood luminaries — from Marlene Dietrich to Mark Ruffalo — to sit for portraits, most frequently inside his second-floor studio perched ...

For more than seven decades, Hollywood stars have had their portraits painted by art legend Don Bachardy, the longtime partner of playwright and novelist Christopher Isherwood. This oral history is an ...

A museum show explores the British writer and the painter Don Bachardy’s partnership, which lasted through uncertainties and ecstasies for 33 years. By Mary Katharine Tramontana BERLIN — In his diary, ...

He might be the only man with an opportunity to see Angelina Jolie in the nude who told her to please keep her clothes on. Portrait artist Don Bachardy had been commissioned in 2005 by Jolie’s mother, ...

Don Bachardy stood beside his famous portrait of Gov. Jerry Brown and scanned the Capitol wall that also held more realistic likenesses of Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Described as a ...

In the mornings, Don Bachardy rises with the sun. He reads quietly until half past noon, when he puts his book down and, like he’s done nearly every day for five decades, picks up a paintbrush.

The American artist Don Bachardy and the British writer Christopher Isherwood were an item for more than 30 years. Despite the gap in their ages – Bachardy was 18 when they met, Isherwood 48 – and the ...

A revelatory show in San Marino puts Don Bachardy’s prolific portrait drawings into a welcome new light. The absorbing survey shows how movies were an influence, but the appeal goes beyond celebrity ...

At some point in the mid-1960s, artist Don Bachardy began to make a regular practice of having the sitter for a portrait-drawing sign and date the sheet of paper, just as the artist did, at the end of ...