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as panels and swatches stretched
! over frames. Every item is large
enough to give an adequate idea
Of how the material would look
In a home.
Without exception. every ex-
hibit to which I was drawn across
the gallery, as by a magnet,
turned out to be the work of
Ben Rose. Undeniably modern,
his textiles shown here yet have
designs and color schemes which
would harmonic with average in
teriors, instead of knocking them
galley west. Some of the others
are much too animated for pro-
longed association, and a num-
ber are downright raucous.
Particularly appealing is Mr..
Roses Boomerang" the simpli-
fed figure in soft earth red and
blue-green in alternate rows on
a sheer white crepe. This sug-
gests a woman's room, whereas
the same designers "Intaglio"
and Chinese Linear" handprintsI
on heavy cream-colored fabrics.
would be admirable in a mans
bedroom or study.
liked also Angelo Testa's small
figured pattern in old blue or gray
(and In alternative two-color
combinations) and two designs by
the Lavernes. one inspired by
pennsylvania Dutch" decorative
motifs, the other entitled "Star-
light Canter." Either would be
delightful in a child's room.
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Washington Debut
The exhibition of paintings by
Joe Summerford this month at
Watkins Gallery, American Uni
versity, is the artists first one
man show in Washington. He is
not a stranger to local galleries.
however, as he has participated
in group exhibitions.
Mr.. Summerford has been asso-
ciated with the university for the
past three years, both as student
and instructor. In autumn. 1948,
he was awarded a fellowship for
creative painting by the Academy
of Time. For the past year he
has been engaged in graduate
work. Most of the Is paintings
in the current show are work of
the past year.
Watkins Gallery recently an
nounced change In its hours. It
is closed on Saturdays. open other
days, including Sunday, from 2
to S.
New Gallery
Mary Power, who studied some
years ago at the Corcoran and I
Phillips Gallery schools, and dur
ing the war years, maintained
studio here while working as an
illustrator for the Air Forces,
opened early this month q small
gallery at 728 Seventeenth street
NV.
The inaugural exhibition COM
prises works by group of artists,
the majority Of whom are "just
emerging" as Miss Power said.
All the artists are more or less ex-
perimental in their approaches.
John Rogers, who has been a fire.
quent exhibitor in Washington
area shows, ranges from tradi-
tional work through stylization, to
semiabstraction in a third item.
John Malloy. whose work has been
seen heretofore at the Whyte
Gallery, has a modern still life ar
rangenent. Water colors of a
lighthouse by e. Upton and of a
harbor by r. H. Gomersall are
pleasing. Miss Power is showing
a small interior.
The best single group is that of
pottery by David Morris, whose
bowls and flower vases are simple
and clean in shape, and have col
ors which suggest interesting har-
monies with flowers.
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Show at Berryville
Three Washington artists were
judges for the fourth annual Luta
Poyneer Hendricks amateur water
color contest and Blue Ridge Art
League exhibition which opened
Friday in the Community Build
ing at Berryville. Va. to extend
through this afternoon. The
judges were Maeble Perry Ed
wards, sculptor. water colorist and
a past president Of the Washing
ton Chapter, National Society of
Arts and Letters; Winifred n
Artaud, portrait. painter. water
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