Milford chronicle., 1961-07-14

drew Wyath judging and won the
Wilmington Trust Company prize,
| for the best watercolor at the
Wilmington Society of Fine Arts
Show in 1860: Little Lake, which
is on the Tour. Mrs. Blam prefers
oils but lately, by experimentation
has developed a new effect with
wax and watercolor. In addition to
the lovely paintings exhibited in
this home there are many unusual
works of art gathered from t h e
West Indies and South America by
| the owners, the Hon. Gerald A.
Drew being Chief of Foreign Per-
sonnel in the us. Department of
State.
Gina Plunquian Mrs. Mark was
reared in Mannheim and HeideI-
burg and came to this country via
Canada. Her early training was in
sculpture, later she began to paint,
feeling the need for color. She and
her husband live in Newark, Della.
Last winter she taught sculpture at
the Delaware Art Center and the
Newark YWCA. During the summer
she is teaching at the Art League
here in Rehoboth. She formerly
taught and established the Art De-
partment at Southern Missionary
College in Chattanooga, Tenn. Her
one man shows have been, held at
the Argent Gallery in New York,
the university Galleries of Prince
ton, Ogelthorpe, Delaware and Lin
coin. Her lovely paintings will be
exhibited at the home OF Mrs. Fran
els Winslow. Pennsylvania Ave.
At the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Randolph Clark the work
of Paulette Van Roekens will be
shown. Her paintings are delight
full and spontaneous. Miss Rockens
Mrs. Arthur Meltzer) lives near
Philadelphia in the Huntingdon
Valley, her husband is on the facul-
ty of the Moore Institute of Art in
Philadelphia, where Mrs. Meltzer
is also an inspiring teacher.
The work of Lynn Bulls Mrs.
Stanley p. Blish) of Wilmington.
will be displayed in the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph S. Harrington
at Indian Beach. She exhibits each
year at Wilmington Clothes Line
Exhibition and at the Hotel dupont
Forty of her paintings were in a
one man show at Wanamaker' last
November Mrs. Blish summers at
Bethany Beach and seascapes are
one of her favorite subjects.
At the summer home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Douglas Whitlock the work of
Jesse F. Reed will be exhibited.
Mr.. Reed lives in Elkins, We s t
Virginia. He studied at the Grand
Central School of Art, and later,
after serving in the Army during
World War III, at the Art Students
League. He is associate Professor
of Art and History at David and
Elkins and Chairman of the Art
Department He works with equal
ease in oils, watercolors and pas
tells, also does beautiful aquatint
etchings. He served in Africa and
Italy during the war and since has
| travelled extensively in North and
South America, so has fascinating
subjects for his work which have
made his exhibitions of unusual in
terest.
Always of interest to the public
are the two studios of the Reho-
both Art League, the first Paynter,
because of its early history, being
the cypress shingled wing of a
Sussex County farm house built
prior to 1890 on the opposite side of
Cedar Greek. now the Rehoboth
Lewes Canal. Nealy % years ago
the League moved this small relic
to its present location, where ii
served as an art center for about IL
years, when the new studio, the
Corkran, was built to serve an en-
larged membership. In the two stu
dos will be shown the work of
Howard S. Schroeder of Lewes and
sculpture of Gina Plunguian.
Mr.. Schroeder majored in Art at
Syracuse University, then studied,
at the National Academy in New
York City. He served in World
War ii and was sent to Fort Miles
in Lewes, and has lived in this
locality ever since. He has exhibit
ed in New York. Philadelphia, Bait
imore and Washington, has won a
number of prizes in Rehoboth, Will
mington and in Baltimore. In 1856
he spent four months painting a.
round the Mediterranean, last
spring he exhibited with the Am
erican Watercolor Society in New
York and in March of this year he
went to Puerto Rico for a months
painting. He has been an instructor
at the Rehoboth Art League since
1916 and for several years. in win
ter, at ST. Andrews School, Middle
town, Delaware.