Evening star., 1949-02-27

designs. IL is OBVIOUS CnaL Jne
artist is also concerned with
arousing sympathy for workers in
some of his prints and paintings.
as they are represented gnarled.
awkward and unhappy looking.
There is emphatic irony in the
woodcut Man and Landscape" a
miserable face against an indus
trial background. Also Days
Haul" large painting. presents
the fisherman as nearly done in,
despite the esthetic concern with
color areas and pattern.
Don Quixote" is the very sub
ject one would expect Mr.. Fras-
conf to find intriguing. The
tatterdemalion knight and his
wretched nag appear more rickety
in this artists Woodcut and oil
paintings than in any previous
interpretations I can recall. The
most abstract of his works is
Fighting Cocks" potpourri of
swlrls, combs and beaks. Ma
chimes (hay tedders, leaders,
rakes, etc. bulk large in some OF
his other works.
Mr.. Frasconi has been a resi-
dent of the United States since
1945. He was born in Argentina in
1919 and soon moved to Uruguay.
Call of the Sea
Edmund J. Fitzgerald likes
water, whether it is in the ocean
or a lily pond, to judge from his
one-man show just opened at the
George Washington University Lii
brary to remain through March
IA. OF II oils and watercolors on
view, more than half are coastal
scenes, or garden pools, or some
thing else wet. Furthermore, his
self portrait was painted in his
lieutenant commanders uniform.
in which he commanded an LIST
during landing operations at Sicily,
Italy. Burma and Normandy.
Mr.. Fitzgerald paints in a natu-
ralistic style, with a regard for
clean-cut technique that will un-
doubtedly please most of the Wis
itors to this exhibition. Born in
Seattle, Wash, in 1912. he studied
under Eustace P. Ziegler there.
also at the California School of
Fine Arts. Before World War II,
Mr.. Fitzgerald divided his paint
ing time between the Seattle
waterfront. and Arch Cape on the
Oregon coast. His paintings on
view include souvenirs of his vari-
Gus sojourns: "Haystack Rock" off
the Oregon coast. Golden Morn
ing" with a man fishing in the
surf; along the Yukon and sew
eral other Alaskan scenes, harbors
and coasts, with Esquimaux build
ing boats, and THE Nordic," a
boat at sea.
After the war. Mr. Fitzgerald
became an instructor of painting
at Parsons School of Design, New
York, and the Newark Academy of
Art, and he lives in Larchmont,
glimpses of which figure in several
watercolors. Mr.. Fitzgerald had
also been close enough to Wash
ington to paint gentle. charming
oil of the Chesapeake shore with a
sailboat.
He has previously exhibited at
the Corcoran Gallery and National
Museum here, and in New York
at the National Academy and
Grand Central Galleries. of which
he Is a member. He is repre-
sented in a number of permanent
collections, and has painted mu-
rails for three United States Post
Offices, as we'll as the Seamen's
Church Institute Of New York,
having won a $4,000 prize awarded
in the competition sponsored by
the National Society of Mural
Painters. His vital likeness of his
wife indicates that he Is also a
good portrait painter.
Alexandria's Bicentennial
Most Washingtonians probably
know that our neighbors in Alex
andria are celebrating this year
the city'S 200th anniversary,
Chequire House at 202 King street,
inaugurated in January a program
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