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GREENSBORO -Art on
Paper, l966f is mainly Thom
as Hess's show.
The second annual competitive-invitational
exhibition, on
view at the Weatherspoon Art
Gallery at the University at
Greensboro through Dec. 16
reflects to a large extent the
viewpoint of Hess, editor of
Art News, who served as the
one-man jury for the eXTiibi
Jon, and also gave Gilbert
Carpenter a list of invited
artists.
Carpenter said that he didn't
nave sufficient time w to ex
amine all the invitational en
tries, and in many instances
got a pig in a poke from the
galleries who represented the
invited artists. Whatever the
reason, the show has a num
ber of lesser works from the
bigger names in the show.
But there are exceptions
aplenty. Jasper Johns' entry
is a masterful presentation of
the popular image. Why it
wasn't purchased, I don't un
derstand. Burton Silverman's
sensitive portrait, "Mother,"
is magnificent. Reuben Naki
an's "Leda and the Swan,"
exudes expression in an econ
omy of line. I didn't know that
Meyer Schapiro painted, but
Art World
By OWEN LEWIS
he has a fine free landscape
in the show.
This, the second annual na
tional exhibit for unique works
on paper at the Weatherspoon,
lacks the visual impact of the
first. There is little color,
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most of the works are pretty
much the same size, and the
show is monotonously hung,
plunk, plunk, plunk. For one
thing the show is too big for
the gallery. To find a place
for 206 works in " the space
available is too much to ask
of any curator.
Dillard Paper Co. gave $10,
000 again this year to make
the show possible, and 31
works were purchased by a
committee of the Weather
spoon Gallery Association to
be added to the Dillard Collec
tion which is part of the gal
lery's permanent collection.
The Weatherspoon Guild, a
group of volunteer women
who are learning about art
and assisting with gallery
projects, put on the s h o w,
with Mrs. Sidney J. Stern as
chairman.
The opening of Art on Paper
was the first public event to
be held in the art department
since it got expanded lobby
space and a new entrance fac
ing on Walker Avenue.
To say that the show is
chiefly a reflection of Hess's
point of view is not to con
demn it. Although Hess is
partial toward abstract ex
pressionist and abstract fig
urative painting and drawing,
his taste is catholic, and his
critical judgement sophisti
cated. The end result is a show
that for all its sameness has
a wide variety of media and
styles. There is, in fact, every
thing from still life to op,
from water color to bas relief.
And the artists include every
thing from Willem de Kooning
to a Texas convict.
Hess carefully culled 1,395
entries from 45 states to se
' lect the 130 competitive works.
These, along with the 76 in
vitational works which Car
penter, head of the UNC-G
Art Department, rounded up,
comprise the show. .
It is not the show I would
have selected.
Carpenter makes it plain in
the catalog that it is not the
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show he would have selected.
Since Hess did not actually
select the invited works, it is
probably not entirely the show
he would have selected.
But for all the reservations,
it is still a good show, a maj
or art event for Greensboro,
and well worth the time of the i
most discriminating viewer. . i
POOR MAN'S WYETH
There is a poor man's An
drew Wyeth showing his paint
ings at the Art Gallery of
Chapel Hill through Dec. 10.
The artist is Darrell Koons,
who teaches art at Bob Jones
University at Greenville, S.C.
Don't let that put you of f ,
though. For all its fundament
alism, bigotry and substand
ard academic program, Bob
Jones U. has a fair-to-middling
art department and a pretty
fair collection of art religious
art, of course.
Koons works in polymer or
transparent watercolor, and
his subject matter is mostly
old farm houses and barns.
If you get far enough away
from them, or take them by
sections, they work well as
abstract compositions, despite
the fact that they are repre
sentational almost to the point
of magic realism.
Sharing the show with Koons
is a printmaker from the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, who is
several cuts above Koons. He
is a gifted intaglio painter,
but he seems to know it, for
his prices are astronomical.
Smith makes excellent use of
negative space and the slight
ly abstracted figure .
GUESSING GAME
The Chapel Hill Weekly
carried a funny story Sunday.
They were announcing vari
ous winners of the prizes in
th,e North Carolina Artists An
nual Exhibition which nobody
is supposed to know until Wed
nesday, when the show has its
second opening in Winston
Salem after hanging in Ra
leigh for the last three weeks.
In the past, the press and
the prize winners were told in
advanjeefBuf6r this yeafTJ
My column announcing t w 6
predicted winners, including a
Chapel Hill housewife who en
tered her first painting, evi
dently put the museum people
off, and they aren't telling
anybody, including the Chapel
Hill Weekly, until Wednesday.
I don't know where the
Weekly g o t its information.
Part of it read like an inac
curate rewrite of my column
of Sunday before last.
But since we've gone this
far, I think I might as well
get in the act and predict the
major winners of the $4,450 in
prizes to be given Wednesday.
Sports writers stick their
necks out every woek. Why
shouldn't art critics?
With no advance knowledge,
but from seeing the show, and
knowing how the judges and
the museum operate, I pre:
diet the following:
$1,000 first prize, a paint
ing by George Bireline of the
UNC art faculty.
$750 Harrellson Award,
painting by Walter Thrift of
Virginia Beach.
$500 prizes to Doris Leep
er of Smyrna Beach, Fla., Jo
Pat Huggins of Chapel Hill,
Jack Mitchell of Fayetteville,
all for paintings.
The scholarships, I predict,
will go to UNC students Ray
Kass, $300 and Phil Whitley,
$100.
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Students at the Unhersity
of Texas were urged to. bring
lunches, snack on the grass,
walk barefooted, sing and be
friendly on a day designated
as "Gentle Thursday," reports
the Daily Texan.
Advocating the carefree day
were members of Students for
a Democratic Society. "This
world is fast-paced and hectic
and 'Gentle Thursday' is a
day set aside when people can
enjoy themselves and be
friendly," SDS member Jeff
Shero said.
"Gentle Thursday' is a
day when we act like the
Revolution had already
come," another member ex
plained. "The Revolution is
when no one has to work; no
one feels hostility. It's Uto
pia." SDS members sold balloons,
lollipops, flowers and chalk for
people who want to draw on
the sidewalks. One SDS mem
ber handed out proverbs, some
of them his own, while min
strels wandered around cam
pus and a jug band entertained.
Louise Lamont As Penny Sycamore
Playmaker Louise Lamont
Cast As A 'Lovable 'Kook9
A love for the theater and a
love for teaching are neatly
combined in Chapel Hillian
Louise Lamont. An accom
plished actress with along
list of theatrical credits, Mrs.
Lamont is now rehearsing for
a major role in the Carolina
Playmakers upcoming produc
tion of "You Can't Take It
With You."
The Pulitzer prize - winning
comedy by George S. Kauf
man and Moss Hart will be
presented in the Playmakers
Theater December 7 through
12.
A dedicated teacher, Mrs.
Lamont has taught , theatrical
classes to varied age groups,
including twelve summers
with the Junior -Carolina Play
makers as instructor in acting
and directing, and numerous
programs with Allied Arts of
Durham. She has been instru
mental in organizing several
children's theater groups in
the area, and last year taught
an adult class in "Costume,
Manners and Modes," a ten
week course which will be
repeated this year at the Ack
land Art Center.
The Carolina Playmakers
production will mark the sec
ond time around for M r s.
' Lamont as a character in
"You Can't . Take It With
You." A few years ago she
played the Grand Duchess
Olga in a Professional tour of
the play through major cities
in the U. S. and Canada.
In the present production
she will portray the role of
Penny Sycamore, one of the
most lovable "kooks" of all
time, who dabbles in art and
has been ' writing plays ever
since the mailman delivered a
typewriter to her house by
mistake.
Reservations for the seven
performances of "You Can't
Take It With You" may be
made at the Playmakers Busi
ness Office, 214 Abernethy
Hall or at Ledbetter - Pickard
downtown.
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