Art life
The pat wall gallery opened its new show of paintings by Bezalel Schatz on Sunday, May 3rd with a pleasant and informal gallery gathering. The large impressionistic oils by the Palestinian artist are of the purest colors and of the most intense values. He uses almost no grays or intermediate browns.
These vivid swirling canvasses are quite overpowering decorations against the gray and chartreuse walls of the little modern gallery on Olivier street. Many friends of "Lilik" Schatz came up to the opening from the Big Sur where he is living with his pretty new wife, Louise. Among those from Down Coast were the "primitive" painter Emil White, sculptor Benny Bufano, and author Henry Miller who collaborated with Lilik on The Book. {"Into the Might Life" by H. Miller and B. Schatz. Price $100.00.) The show will be up until May 22nd.
Salvador Dali and wife Gala are back home after a successful New York showing of his work at the Bijnou Galleries. Of the twenty or so paintings that he painted here in his Monterey studio and took with him for his N. Y. show, every one sold within a week. Look magazine reported that one of the paintings sold for $14,000.00. He is back painting again and with lots of commissions. Nice work if you can get it.
Two well known artists here who rated raves for their City of Paris Rotunda Gallery exhibit were Jean Varda and Andre Moreau. The Chronicle's Spencer Barefoot pulled all the stops in a lyric This World eulogy . . . Varda has taken over San Francisco to be his own, being something of a Pied Piper of Art. His new heme is in a forty foot warehouse loft over a refrigerator shop in Greenwich Alley. The walls are painted gold, purple, pink and lime green and are not supported by a lovely series' of painted columns. The columns hold up nothing except Varda's theory that "frigidaire architecture" must be defeated. Varda is teaching an adult class at the School of Fine Arts and has also taken over Dorr Bothwell's class while she is in the east. One of his students recently was actress Ina Claire. We hear she proved to be one of the few to hold her own in rapid fire conversations with the volatile "Janko", Back to make arrangements for another summer ballet course at Carmel was ebulient Alex Oumansky. He arranged for his master group to study at the Golden Bough Green Room beginning June 14th. Gertrude Harris, curator at the Pat Wall Gallery, will handle correspondence and information regarding his ballet course. Oumansky and his wife Peggy are instructors of dance in Portland and connected with the Portland Civic Theater.
Curator Nelly Montague is back from her vacation and is busy again. She is spark-plugging a Thursday night radio KDON round table called "Art in Living on the Monterey Peninsula."
Mrs. Laura Maxwell donated her time as curator while Nelly was away and received a special vote of thanks from the board of directors for her good work. The Carmel Art Association Gallery is sponsoring (jointly with the Carmel High School art department) the second annual Festival of Art for California High Schools. It will be held May 17 through 24 in Carmel. Last year sixty five California high schools participated. This year promises even better, with prizes of cash awards and art materials to be donated by Carmel business men.
Billy Justema, well known Monterey designer of modern wallpapers, will take time out for a showing of easel paintings at the C. of P. Rotunda Gallery from June 15 to July 10. These are his first easel pictures since 1940.
Down the coast author Walker Wins-low is warming up on a new book. He and his new wife are recently returned from Santa Fe and are staying at the Murphy house at the Sulphur Baths.
Latest news of What's Doing's roving correspondent "tj": Toni- Jackson Ricketts was recently married to Dr. Ben Volcani, biologist and ardent Zionist. They were married in New York and feasted by novelist John Steinbeck for whom Toni has worked as a secretary. Toni, a former editor of this magazine, was given an American visa to enter Palestine as a roving correspondent foe "What's Doing". The British accepted the visa with only one minor restriction: She was required to sign an affidavit promising not to write anything for publication.
HERE AND THERE IN THE ART COLONIES: Artist Sam Harris and his brother Bruce Harris are working with novelist Dave Duncan on his new Raspberry Flat home. George Rhoda designed it, as well as the house going up next door for writer Henry Rink. Wife Peggy Rink elated ever acceptance by Script Magazine of her short story about biological warfare . . . Architectural designer Rowan Maiden of Huckleberry Hill, who studied with Frank Lloyd Wright, is doing the Bill Fassett place down at Big Sur. The big structure will be a sort of metting-house, buffet restaurant, art gallery, square-dance hall etc., etc., and etc. Bill hasn't listed all his plans as yet, but it will be a wonderful project . . . The Hatlos, Jimmy and Eleanor, are gone from Carmel again—this time to N. Y. for the Cartoonists' Convention.
Art life
The pat wall gallery opened its new show of paintings by Bezalel Schatz on Sunday, May 3rd with a pleasant and informal gallery gathering. The large impressionistic oils by the Palestinian artist are of the purest colors and of the most intense values. He uses almost no grays or intermediate browns.
These vivid swirling canvasses are quite overpowering decorations against the gray and chartreuse walls of the little modern gallery on Olivier street. Many friends of "Lilik" Schatz came up to the opening from the Big Sur where he is living with his pretty new wife, Louise. Among those from Down Coast were the "primitive" painter Emil White, sculptor Benny Bufano, and author Henry Miller who collaborated with Lilik on The Book. {"Into the Might Life" by H. Miller and B. Schatz. Price $100.00.) The show will be up until May 22nd.
Salvador Dali and wife Gala are back home after a successful New York showing of his work at the Bijnou Galleries. Of the twenty or so paintings that he painted here in his Monterey studio and took with him for his N. Y. show, every one sold within a week. Look magazine reported that one of the paintings sold for $14,000.00. He is back painting again and with lots of commissions. Nice work if you can get it.
Two well known artists here who rated raves for their City of Paris Rotunda Gallery exhibit were Jean Varda and Andre Moreau. The Chronicle's Spencer Barefoot pulled all the stops in a lyric This World eulogy . . . Varda has taken over San Francisco to be his own, being something of a Pied Piper of Art. His new heme is in a forty foot warehouse loft over a refrigerator shop in Greenwich Alley. The walls are painted gold, purple, pink and lime green and are not supported by a lovely series' of painted columns. The columns hold up nothing except Varda's theory that "frigidaire architecture" must be defeated. Varda is teaching an adult class at the School of Fine Arts and has also taken over Dorr Bothwell's class while she is in the east. One of his students recently was actress Ina Claire. We hear she proved to be one of the few to hold her own in rapid fire conversations with the volatile "Janko", Back to make arrangements for another summer ballet course at Carmel was ebulient Alex Oumansky. He arranged for his master group to study at the Golden Bough Green Room beginning June 14th. Gertrude Harris, curator at the Pat Wall Gallery, will handle correspondence and information regarding his ballet course. Oumansky and his wife Peggy are instructors of dance in Portland and connected with the Portland Civic Theater.
Curator Nelly Montague is back from her vacation and is busy again. She is spark-plugging a Thursday night radio KDON round table called "Art in Living on the Monterey Peninsula."
Mrs. Laura Maxwell donated her time as curator while Nelly was away and received a special vote of thanks from the board of directors for her good work. The Carmel Art Association Gallery is sponsoring (jointly with the Carmel High School art department) the second annual Festival of Art for California High Schools. It will be held May 17 through 24 in Carmel. Last year sixty five California high schools participated. This year promises even better, with prizes of cash awards and art materials to be donated by Carmel business men.
Billy Justema, well known Monterey designer of modern wallpapers, will take time out for a showing of easel paintings at the C. of P. Rotunda Gallery from June 15 to July 10. These are his first easel pictures since 1940.
Down the coast author Walker Wins-low is warming up on a new book. He and his new wife are recently returned from Santa Fe and are staying at the Murphy house at the Sulphur Baths.
Latest news of What's Doing's roving correspondent "tj": Toni- Jackson Ricketts was recently married to Dr. Ben Volcani, biologist and ardent Zionist. They were married in New York and feasted by novelist John Steinbeck for whom Toni has worked as a secretary. Toni, a former editor of this magazine, was given an American visa to enter Palestine as a roving correspondent foe "What's Doing". The British accepted the visa with only one minor restriction: She was required to sign an affidavit promising not to write anything for publication.
HERE AND THERE IN THE ART COLONIES: Artist Sam Harris and his brother Bruce Harris are working with novelist Dave Duncan on his new Raspberry Flat home. George Rhoda designed it, as well as the house going up next door for writer Henry Rink. Wife Peggy Rink elated ever acceptance by Script Magazine of her short story about biological warfare . . . Architectural designer Rowan Maiden of Huckleberry Hill, who studied with Frank Lloyd Wright, is doing the Bill Fassett place down at Big Sur. The big structure will be a sort of metting-house, buffet restaurant, art gallery, square-dance hall etc., etc., and etc. Bill hasn't listed all his plans as yet, but it will be a wonderful project . . . The Hatlos, Jimmy and Eleanor, are gone from Carmel again—this time to N. Y. for the Cartoonists' Convention.