The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-24


trait of Key West" currently at
airport.
Judges were native Key Westers
Circuit Court Judge Aquilino Lo-
peg, Jr., Curry Moreno and Mrs.
Norberg Thompson.
Peter Hayward is a winter visi-
tor who has found Key West to be
wealthy material for his work. A
former sculptor, Hayward uses a
palette knife to apply his pigments
to canvas, and the result is a
freshness of color which is es-
pecially evident in his treatment
of vari-hued croton leaves and the
reproduction of tropical sunlight,
not only in two views of ''Love
Lane" but in the brilliant tur-
quoise blue and cleaning white of
his oil, "Thompson's Dock" His
land and seascapes are without
distortion and border on realism.
They are easy to absorb and pleas
ing to the eye of the layman. His
holiness lies in his clarity of
shades and use of light and ysha-
dow rather than in subject choice.
In the first section of the exhibit
there are over Is paintings by
local artists all within easy purse
; range. Karl Agricola has already
sold two of his humorous paintings,
Gold TOOTH the head of a grin
ming colored woman with new
gold tooth and might Life, y
showing a Key West cat scamper-
ing away from trash can. Larry
Harms has also sold his casein
Boats" with its strong green's,
blues and whites of a waterfront
scene.
In this group, Alice Sredin's
"Jungletown," a simplified study
of colored town, smacks of subtle
humor. Hugh Bredin has one oil,
a still life of bottles in interesting
dark toneage, very suitable for I
mans den or lounge. Mrs. Bredin
steps into the higher bracket with
Pink House." warm luminous
oil with a great deal of charm anC
much more work evident than in
her SHARK Island" which has a
bit too much expanse of sundrench
ed sand in the foreground.
Newcomer Irene Glinos shows
mood and talent in ''The End" q
lovely watercolor with rain-drench
ed effects of the lonely old ruin:
lof a one-time pineapple factory
here. She also has watercolol
of church with the same pear
grays and subdued dark green's. l
is one of the Start Your Own Col
lection group which enables ar
lovers to own an original.
In the more spectacular ant
modern field are the paintings o
Hari Kidd. His abstraction trent
is tempered with directed intelli
gence and although he is fauvre
according to conservatism, tn
work is never too obscure. "Hur
ricane," for example is at frs
a mere impression of wild sweep
ing design, but underneath thu
wind-wave pattern, the tiny lean
ing houses and the bowed palm
easily convey the meaning to tn
most naive. In "Old Key Yves
House." with its mystic, nostalgia
strange mood of things past am
remembered, expressed with unde
lying light coming up through over
lying shades in interlocked pat
terms, the translucent beauty j
mingled with mystery and a sug
gestion Of tragedy, even terror a
! in a study of Poe's Fall Of tn
House of Usher" Kids work i
the most modern in the exhibit.
Exactly opposite are the reals
| tic, yet at the same time poeti
watercolors, finely detailed D.
William Greene whose recent SHOW
| at the Harms Studio was reviewe'
last week.
Lew Strong submitted tire,
watercolors. one Of shrimpboats o
delicate line and tint, and tw'
others with uncommon shades o
brick red, more tawny than Grim
son. nicely complimcnted with u.s.
of silver-grays and soft greens
His potentiality is great, but h
needs TO spend more time in ordel
10 eliminate the ''Not-quite finish
Ied'' impression. His subjects arr
Il off the beaten track and he ha
an excellent eye for the essentials
lone watercolor is of the Bar
Theater, the other Of The old cool