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Cljtractii Irtntbaii Unburn November 29, 1959 Part 7- Page 6 Whath in Store for You at American Exhibit BULLETIN BOARD 1 rx It Miss Weigle previewed this show before leaving on her vacation. She'll be back Dec. 14. By Edith Wefgle .1 Eleanor Page THREE DIMENSIONAL picture of matzos in an abstract form collage titled The Last Supper won first prize at 'an Art ball given by three couples, A 1HE American exhibi tion, one of the im-Dortant shows of the i' f'-'J '18 1. i i tt i 1 BIr.

and Mrs. Sanford D. Abrams, the Jack Hearsts, and the Herbert Biels, in the Bal Tabarin of the Sherman hotel. The hosts and hostesses planned the event to give their friends an opportuni- ty to express themselves I artistically, as well as to 1 -J 1 U4 Alt' I i -s- Xi. 11 Vs van Albright crowds his canvas with Ir "Cow Camp" Chicago artist a wealth institute.

such Art viewer. In coming American exhibit at of detail as to stagger the year, opens at the Art in-s i Wednesday. The 136 paintings and sculp-tures, representing the works of 46 artists, were invited by former curator of paintings and sculpture Katharine and by Frederick A. Sweet, curator of American painting and sculpture. Nine prizes amounting to $9,250 have been awarded by a jury made up of Robert Motherwell, teacher and avant garde painter; Otto Wittman director of the Toledo Museum of Art, and Alfred Frankenstein, critic, lecturer, and teacher.

Announcement of the winners will be made Tuesday. Mr. Sweet has done an excellent job of hanging the show. Paintings are grouped according to schools and it is heartening to see that a sincere effort has been made to represent all types of contemporary art abstract expressionism alone. The so-called "New York school" whose loud voice has been heard thru the land for years, until many of us now are tone deaf, no longer dominates the scene.

Mrs. Sanford D. Abrams show their works before a sizable crowd and to professional judges. It attracted 200 works of art which were hung around the Mrs. Marvin Weifeld wedding dress.

It is realism saturated with the macabre. Of the 46 artists, each represented by several works a feature to be commended eight are Chicagoans. They are II. C. Wester-mann.

Joyce Treiman, Neil Barrett, Richard Hunt, Alan Lunak, Joseph Goto, Ivan Albright, and Leon Golub. leries another interesting sign of the times in the field of art. Enormous, frenzied, ove r-power-ing action paintings are happiiy absent, this time. The largest canvas 7x12 feet is a representational work, "Dance," by Joseph Hirsch, in which life size musicians are seen playing for a single aged couple in 1 Andrew Wyeth in River Cove once again demonstrates he is one of America's greatest painters of natural beauty. ridicule with devastating wit the hypocrisies and weaknesses of society.

In the American Print Today exhibition in the print galleries of the institute Shahn has done a finely detailed, beautiful nature study But in the east wing galleries he contributes a figure study, the portrait of a top brass officer who has all gone to medals. Tiny head, tiny, ineffectual hands, and huge barrel chest covered with decorations are this artist's way of attacking weak characters in high places. Two of Levine's canvases also are jaundiced in viewpoint, as usual. But ART CALENDAR DIRECT FROM PARIS These are major see in Chicago exhibitions you can during December. One gallery is given over to the highly representa-tionaL painting of the sur Cfjtcago 9rt J5aIIcrtcs AUCTION Thurs.

and Dec. I. 2. 3, 4. at 7:30 P.M.

VALUABLE PAINTINGS FINE FURNITURE ART TREASURES ORIENTAL RUGS JEWELRY SILVER CHINA CRYSTAL OBJECTS OF ART CHANDELIERS From the Palatial Residence of MRS. J. M. STUDEBAKER, III South Bend, Indiana Sold by her order Toqether with the property of MYRTLE HUCK, Oak Park, III. Also the collection of LINCOLN MATERIAL The property of L.

C. LEVERING And from others Pointings to be sold Fri. Dec Allan Frumkin gallery, 545 N. Michigan av. Special Christmas showing of master prints of 19th and 20th centuries acquired during year.

Arts club, 109 E. Ontario st. Sculpture and drawings by Henry Moore, Dec. 11 to Jan. 14.

ballroom walls. The matzos collage done by Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer Harris, and three collages made of pills, designed, co-incidentally, by three doctors, Siegfried Strauss, Alwin Rambar, and William Tannenbaum, were among the hits of the evening. Invitations to the party were in the form of 'a prospectus sent to artists to participate in an Conditions of Entry specified an original work to be presented by the couple upon arriving and ready to be hung.

Judges were Mrs. Alberta Friedlander, art critic; Joseph Randall Shapiro, collector; Abbott Pattison, sculptor; and Antimo Beneduce, painter. The Bal Tabarin was decorated to resemble an outdoor Paris cafe. But guests felt as tho they were inside a museum when some abstract paintings by Mrs. Abrams, known to the art world as Shirley Friend, portraitist, were projected on the walls.

Mrs. Abrams, who has long been kidded because she never joined the "avant garde" movement, did the abstracts with tongue in cheek, taking off some of today's best known abstract artists. She dashed them off in her kitchen, using food dyes, because she didn't have time to do them in her studio. A take-off of Salvador Dali by the Louis Kuppenheim-ers and the Frank Rothschilds was regarded by Mrs. Abrams, at least, as the most professional work of art.

The junior Harry G. Sunh'eims entered a picture which, when hung one way, represented a woman's face, then when turned upside down became a torso. The whole was covered with a spider's web of string. The dance orchestra played from the center of the ball room, to allow plenty of wall space, and living still lifes" fresh vegetables, bottles of wine, sausages, and bread in handsome frames on the buffet tables attracted covetous eyes. Guests, dressed as artists, laymen, collectors, paintings, beatniks, or "Critics, included the Marvin Welfelds, at first unrecognizable as Gauguin and his Tahitian mistress; the Frederick Spiegels in painters' cover-alls, carrying a ladder; and Patrick Hoy, as a collector, with the name, Nathan Cummings, on a sign across his back.

S. Michigan av. Drawings and water colors of the French school, 1900 to 1950, Dec. 4 to end of month. Little gallery, 1328 E.

57th st. Paintings in enamel on copper by Richard Loving and wheel thrown animals, ceramics, by David Laughlin. Mam Street gallery, 624 N. Michigan av. One Hundred Years of Great French and American Painting," all month.

Marshall Field company art galleries Exhibition of 4th at 7:30 P.M. Amona the artists represented are: RUBEN S-SNYDERS; MARATTA; HENNER; KNIGHT; HOMER BROWN; HARPIGNIES; MAUVE SCHREYER; DE MATEIS; PUL- ZONE; JUANES; DA CARPI; NEU ROOSENBOOM; ZOFFANY BONINGTON; FIELDING; MOR- LAND; SHAYER; KOEKKOEK NEUHUYS; BRUCK-LAJOS; VED Premiere Exhibition Oil and Gouache Paintings by E0SLE SABGIMUD Nov. 16 to Dec. 8 DER; SHEPHERD; ASTI; RANGER, ETC. ALSO DRAWING BY REM .1 -f li 4 BRANDT.

Cljicacjo 3rt Galleries 5960 N. Broadway LOnqbeach 1-7257 realist school; another to the "image of man," and a third to realism and semi-abstractions. It is in this last room that one finds the four great moments of the exhibition the four paintings by Andrew Wyeth. This superb artist, who, all his life, has gone his quiet way oblivious of the movements in the art world of our time, completely dedicated to his own methods of realism in art, proves once more that he knows how to create a masterpiece. He does it by being unafraid to depict beauty, by viewing his subject with total understand- ing understar ding that has a comprehension of intangible, spiritual overtones beyond the physical and that can project this feeing to all v.

ho pause to look. "River Cove," lent by Mr. and Mrs. David Rockefeller, is not just a masterly piece of Wyeth realism. It goes beyond this, being imbued with a quality which lifts it into the ranks of great paintings.

It is true that Wyeth's technique here is faultless, but again it is the something more, the something toeyond that makes this work unforgetable. This same mysticism is inherent, also, in "Christina's World," owned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and it is present to some degree in Hay Ledge," lent by Ann Coleman-Woolworth to this American exhibition. Art Institute Print galleries: American Prints Today," ending Dec. East Wing galleries, starting Dec. 2, ending Jan.

31, 63d American exhibition, invited show of 46 outstanding American painters and sculptors. Artists Guild, 333 N. Michigan av. Exhibition by bers. Benjamin galleries, 154 E.

Superior st. American and European art; daily, 2 to 9 p. Saturday, 11 a. m. to 6 p.

m. Carson Pirie Scott Co. European art collection. 6th floor. Lithographs and other works by Tamir, 5th floor.

Cromer Quint galleries, N. State st. General exhibit, including Alice Mason, Scribner Ames. Hary Hult, and Gustaf Dalstron. Fairweather-IIardin galleries, 141 E.

Ontario st. Paintings by Eleanor Coen, ending Dec. 5." Rest of the month, Christmas exhibition of paint- ings, prints, -drawings, and sculpture. Feigen gallery, 1444 Astor st. New acquisitions by modern masters, Beckman, Ernst, Kupka, Miro, Moore, Tanguy, and others.

Feingarten galleries, 101 E. Oak st. One man show by Francois Arnal, thru Dec. 10; jfJhsn Chicago Was YrnigM K1DLAY Ey Hernia Cark original lithographs of great French masters and their contemporaries. North Shore Art Swiss Chalet galleries, Bismarck hotel Exhibition of paintings by members, thru January.

North Shore Art league, Holland Goldowsky gallery, 155 E. Ontario st. New Horizons exhibition of prize winning works, starting Dec. 4. Old Town Art center, 1714 N.

Wells st. Paintings and sculpture by Brunetin, Cibu-ka, De Meo, Parfenoff, Rosof-sky, Seaberg, N. Smith, Su-yeoka, and Woolway. Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts, 1012 N. Dearborn st.

Annual exhibition of small oils, ending with auction, Dec. 4. Gallery hours: Monday to Sunday, 1 to 5 p. Tuesday and Thursday until 9 p. m.

Public library, Randolph st. at Michigan av. Sculpture by Rudolph Amateo Seno; brush paintings by Ryo.a Ogura, Dec. 2 to 30. Renaissance society.

Good-speed hall, 1010 E. 59th st Contemporary Art for Young Collectors," thru Dec. 16. Hours: Monday thru Friday, 30 a. m.

to 5 p. Saturday-Sunday, 1 to 5 p. m. GALLERIES FINDLAY BUILDING 320 SOUTH MICHIGAN AVE. JLtHeri from Martli Esmond to her friend Julia Boyd of New York) Chicago, Nov.

30, 1911 Dear Julia: Thanksgiving day is past and we're alive to tell the tale. As usual, we went to Martha Junior's for dinner. I offered, rather feebly I confess, to have the family herfe, but Martha brushed the offer aside, saying she couldn't think of letting me undertake it. I breathed a sigh of relief because even a' family dinner seems quite a responsibility now. But Martha knows what good pumpkin pies our cook makes, and present the Inaugural Exhibition of Paintings by HENK BOS and PIETER VAN VELZEN In settings intended to capture the beauty that the eye can see the ear can hear and the heart can feel.

A unique showcase eiclusively for the professional decorator and the art dealer. GUILDHALL GALLERIES, Ltd. 679 North Wells Street WHiteliall 4-3200 Th4 public it invited to brotce James Wines' entry is this bronze, "Child's Torso." the third is refreshingly different. It is a portrait of a little girl, "Susanna as a Charro, and is almost as fine a piece of painting as a Velasquez because of its gray, black and white palette and the attitude of the figure it closely resembles. The face is marvelous-ly done and quite so she asked that we fur 64th ANNUAL AUCTION OF SMALL OIL PAINTINGS 8 P.

DEC. 4th AT THE PALETTE CHISEL ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS 1012 N. Dearborn St. conducted by the eminent auctioneer ARCHIE SHORE nish three pies for the dinner, which we were delighted do. Will always pro-vides the turkey, which was roasted i the Macleod larry a.

luna galleries sculpture by John Rood, Dec. 11 to 31. Findlay galleries. 320 S. Michigan av.

Paintings by Bernard Buffet in special Christmas showing, starting Dec. 9. Friendship House, 4233 Indiana av. Exhibition of the work of Chicago artists, thru Dec. 5.

Guildhall galleries, 679 N. Wells st. Paintings by Henk Bos, i van- Velzen, Charles Wheddephol, Gretchen Mass, Yves Leve-que, Gerald Sekoto, others. International galleries, 424 H- MA 7-U74 MORI S3 East Van turen St. FINE ARTS OF THE ORIENT In the Print Boom thru December THE WOODBLOCK PRINTS Or GEN YAMAGUCHI Contemporary and Old Mastcrprints for Christmas Giving endtr the direction at jo eiMine-fubia Presents Chicago's Finest Collection of Pre-Columbian, Primitive, African Oceanic Arf DAILY :30 A.

M. to P. M. THURSDAY "TILL P. M.

5236 S. BLACKSTONE AVE. MUseum 4-5300 Mary Gardes Several artists demonstrate they are returning to recognizable forms. One formerly abstract painter who has been in this return phase for some time is the Californian Richard Diebenkorn, whose "Bed Frank A. Ryan gallery, 1716-1718 N.

Wells st. Paintings by Mary Gehr, Helen Prickett, Rosemary Zwick, and Phillip Perkins and Christmas exhibition of art and art crafts thru December. Paul Theobald bookstore gallery, 5 N. Wabash av. Paintings by Gladys Armstrong, thru December.

Hours: 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. So we kitchen, of course FAIIXTIXGS SUITAILE FOR CIIHIST.MAS f.SFTS 1 ARNAL i A GALLERIES OF Frank J.

Oehlschlaeger K7 E. Oak St. SU 7-4771 FEINGARTEN GALLERIES 101 E. OAK The sculpture in this American exhibition goes from the extremes of the rusty copper and brass tanks and tubes of Stankie-wicz and his wieird "constructions" to the pared down, classic bronze figures of James Wines. Young who is among Fair-weather-Hardin gallery artists here, shows, I think, remarkable promise.

So, too, does Julius Schmidt, whose greenish "Iron Sculpture" is one of the most impressive nonobjective works in the exhibition. In its massiveness, its compactness, and its skill of execution it somehow, strangely enough, reminds one of T'ang dynasty pieces. Across the valley of more than a thousand years it is an example of our own dynasty of the Machine. There are few paintings of gigantic size in this series in the east wing gal- be Thanksgiving day." Sandy indorsed that advice, too, reminding us, as the apples were passed, of the old saying: "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." Esmond professed to be surprised that his physician-father would pass out such advice, asking if he wanted to ruin his practice. Sandy insisted that all doctors would be glad if their 'patients could get along without medicine.

Dr. Wiley's last suggestion was that we should all ask the merchants with whom we deal to close their stores at six o'clock on Christmas eve, so that employes might enjoy the next day. I must remember to do that because I know that many stores are open very late on the night before Christmas to get the last bit of holiday trade. Martha Jr. and I heard Mary Garden last evening in "Thais," when she repeated her triumph of last season, and we did enjoy her.

She is a controversial figure. Many declare that, tho she has dramatic ability, she can't sing. Others say that she has an excellent voice but can't act! I was pleased to read this morning the appraisal of Glen Dillaj-d Gunn, The Tribune's music critic, on her performance of last night. He had nothing but praise for her art and feels that her secret is her poise that she meets every situation triumphantly. I like her acting; it makes the opera come alive.

Your old friend, Martha Esmond ELEANOR GOEIl PAINTINGS Thru. Dec. 5 Fairweather-Hardin Gallery Ml E. Ontario St. Mon.

thre Sat. 10 to Ml 2-0007 DENZER ART GALLERY HAS MOVED FROM I SO I N. CLARK ST. TO 2847 If. CLARK ST.

Buckingham 1-2871 Paintinis. Antieue Jewtlry. Silvervire did our part. We had a wonderful time. All the children and the spouses of the married ones were there, besides the new baby, Esmond Macleod who is a beautiful child and so good.

I wish you could see him. Sandy read aloud some of the Don'ts offered by Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief chemist of the department of agriculture, who is in charge of the pure food division of the department. The suggestions applied to Thanksgiving but are just as good for other days, Sandy said.

Did you happen to see the-list? The first was: Don't try to consume the nation's entire production at one meal." I suppose one always does eat too much at a Thanksgiving feast. Another suggestion on the Wiley list was: Don't fail to eat cranberry sauce with vour turkey." Sandy in- ikirsed that. Still another suggestion of Dr. Wiley's was: Don't fail to eat an apple with your dinner and with every dinner. Make it a rule to eat an apple with every dinner and every day will Naum Gabo's construction is of steel wires.

and View of the Ocean is Sculpture Graphic Artslff rou V.fffi Wl'f 7 E. WALTON, In FLU. SU 7-1771 A I Ml 5 11 a.m. to p.m. daily except Sunday 4 5uppy Sfore ERIC GARFIELD sTiURON LITHOGRAPHIC DRAWINGS BY corM.t.'s.i.c- Picasso Matisse Leger LfO 1 SA Chicago's Finest in ART Public Sales and Appraisals of Holland's Art Gallsry Hm and- roperf.

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