Color

Dr. Esteban Valderrama, 47, director of a Cuban art school, leading portrait painter of Havana, this winter was commissioned by the Cuban Senate to paint a portrait of President Roosevelt. A great admirer of President Roosevelt is thin, excitable Dr. Valderrama. He hopes that when his portrait is hung in the Cuban Senate it.will be inscribed "President Franklin D. Roosevelt--Author of the Doctrine Good Neighbor." Painter of many a Cuban notable, Dr. Valderrama has developed a theory that every man has his special color, thinks the color of heavy-featured Cuban President Laredo Bru is palido (pale), the color of swarthy, hard-hitting Colonel Batista is blanco-rojo, or white-red. Last week Dr. Valderrama got his first sitting at the White House. Working with a box of pastel crayons open before him while a Viennese etcher made pencil sketches and the President talked, smoked, worked over his papers, Artist Valderrama studied the President's special color for an hour and fifteen minutes. Then he beamed, nodded, found the President "very good--very natural." When reporters asked him the color of President Roosevelt: "Natural rose with a touch of fine grey," replied admiring Dr. Valderrama.

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