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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-15
HerbIock's Art

NonSe nSe. Technically,
newspaper cartoons may be
reproductions of drawings
made for that purpose, but
their artistry depends not on
technology but on spirit. And
the spirit moves effectively
in the pen and brush Of
Herblock.
There is no caricature. The
devastating wit expresses it.
self as pure intellect perceiv-
ing and letting us perceive
mans insanity to man, the
classic subject of the car
toonist. The wit can be grim,
as in the personified nuclear
bomb smiling on Khrushchev.
That's my boy" And it can
go beyond humor, as in the
chilling drawing of Khru-
shchev hammering with his
shoe on Dag Hammerskjold's
grave.
1t is most effective when
some hard-to-define balance
is struck between subject and
the basic cartoonist'S percep-
tion of idiocy. The lIngainlv
figures of the louisiana
State Legislature" covering
in a corner before the dimin-
utive colored schoolgirl; or
Electric Company Execu-
tives" as a blowsy pianist in
a fancy house, asking Sena-
tor Kefauver, you mean
something's been going on
upstairs all these years?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-15
Drawings, Prints

There are some drawings
and prints, notably by George
Grosz and Kandinsky, but
the bulk of the show is in
oil painting. Chronologically
the exhibition begins with a
seated figure by Childe Has
sam Woman with Jonquils, a"
in which the spirit of the
blossoms has been incorpo-
rated into the softly vibrant
background to the gentle
figure. There is no attempt,
however, to follow the de-
velopment of the century's
art. Most of the work would
presumably date from the
last twenty years and a good
deal of it from the last ten.
An unexpected strength is
in three pictures of the Cali
fornia, Observation-Disclosures
sionist school, A bright land
scape by James Weeks su-
perbly demonstrates the way
in which this group of paint
erS employs the New York
method for more traditional
purposes. David Parks Fig
ures with Boat" is one of the
major paintings of this effort
and perhaps of postwar
America. Interestingly, an
other leader of the group,
Richard Diebenkorn, is rep
resented by a canvas about
as non-objective as anything
at first glance, though it
fitfully suggests a landscape.
The heart of the show is
in the main tradition of this
century's American painting,
separate from abstract ex-
pressionism, concerned with
composition and with the
inner realities of things rang
ing from a bowl of zinnias
walt Kuhn to the sea and
the sky and the men be-
tween them Karl Knaths).
In between may be found
one Of the classic pictures of
Jack Levine. THE Banquet"
in which old silent movie
characters are pressed into
very funny service, and a
poignant bit of self -revela-
ton by Raphael Soyer. Titled
MY Model" the picture
places the nude girl in the
foreground; dimly seen in the
background is Soyer himself,
taking a measure, struggling
intensely to see what he sees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-15

the adroit handling of the
figure in its setting as for
the opening Of. that setting
through a window into a deep
perspective Of a street. This
is created by a here handful
of verticals, apparently total
ly unrelated to any specific
form in the street but COM
ing together with the inward
swooSh of Piero della Fran
cesco. Mr.. Gates successful
ly weds very broad brushwork
to still life and landscape in,
respectively, yellow Pitch
er" and Sand Spit" e
In somewhat the same
spirit, but in much slicker
manner, Joe Summerford
translates road cuts into paint
SmearS,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-15
At Jefferson Place

The gallery group show
which opens the season at
the jefferson Place reveals
several of the regulars at the
same old stand still doing
the same old business, some
new business by some old
hands, and a scattering of
newcomers present by ar
rangement with a New York
gallery.
OF the newcomers the most
important and promising for
art in Washington is Robert
D'Arista, a new faculty men,
Der at American University.
For some reason this artist
is represented by two small
oil sketches rather than by
any Of the larger works on
which his national reputa-
ton rests. These two small
paintings are fine in them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-15
ObeIisk Gallery

The opener at the ObeliSk
consists of recent prints by
one of the leading American
printmakers, Edmond Casa
rella. About evenly divided
between powerful black and
white woodcutS and softer,
colored monotypes, the show
thus reveals two sides Of O.
very important and very en-
joyable contemporary artistic
production.
The monotypes are abstract
and amusing, the colors, usu-
ally, within a close range of
plums and olives, the forms
placed with great precision
for their single printing. The
artist often INDUCES in
whimsy and brings it off
everytime, which is amazing
on two counts: whimsy is
generally a temptation to be
avoided, and whimsy is the
last thing one would expect
of the author of the wood
cuts.
Here it succeeds. Example:
a pile of flat forms, leaning
dangerously to the right,
titled, lettering" Another:
a row of colored disks, just
above center of a small print,
with one spot empty; the
slipped disk is at the bottom
of the print; the title is
"Whoops." These are the
first successful examples this
observer has seen of a
graphic artist doing much
the same thing Norman Mac
Laren used to do so enchant-
ingly in his Canadian films.
The monotypes impress
you, finally. as the work of
an expert at play. The wood
cuts are most important,
more totally effective and
more lasting in their effects.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-15

pleased surprise that art of
this quality and this range is
owned in Washington. It is
worth noting that several
Washington collections-the
Hartman, for example, the
Kreeger and the Rubin-while
represented by very fine
works are by no means rep
resented by their best avail
able.
So that's two things right
there you can do about art in
dull old Washington: you can
buy the stuff and live with it:
and you can join your peers
in working to make the Cor
coran ever more useful to
residents and visitors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-15
Of VoIor

Another newcomer appar-
emily worth getting to know
is Frederic ThursS. "Of VAL
or" is a red expanse Of low
textured paint with a nicely
placed. rather thick, black
and white form looking
vaguely like a volcano. In the
past the gallery has concen-
trated on the non-objective
painting and this artist looks
as if he could give some point
to that direction.
OF the old hands with
something to say, Robert
Gates and Jacob Kainen say
it best. Mr.. Kainen's Nude
on a Blue Couch" is quite
remarkable, not so much for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-15
Woodcuts

Woodcut has always been
a strange medium, the first
strange thing being why any
enc would practice it. 1t re-
quires great physical strength
and skill and the artist has
to cut away most of the wood
to leave standing the lines
that print black.
The answer to the why is
Immediately evident in the
grace and strength of Mr..
Casarella's prints. Certain Of
the qualities are unobtain-
able in just about any other
medium and the artist has
cultivated his control to the
point where it is absolute.
Woodcuts are normally
printed by hand; the paper
is rubbed against the linked
wood, not pressed as in most
print forms. In the prints on
view, control Of the rubbing
has produced a subtle varia-
ton in the quality Of black
that has to be seen to be
believed. The outstanding ex-
ample is Storm Passing"
with the clouds a soft. rain
bearing black, the mountains
a hard, enduring black.
Here as in all the prints,
Mr.. Casarella makes the dis
tinguishing difficulty of
woodcut work for him; that
is, the matter of having to
cut away to get white. His
typical print contains large
areas of black-uncut wood.
BY streaking his blacks with
white lines, and by controlled
rubbing, he fashions a vision
of life that is uplifting to see.
Among the prints are sew
eral variations of the rock
supported Greek city of Mis-
ira and two prints that let
black dominate to great adj
vantage: Wall of Silence"
and Islands" the latter a
mere white scratching of a
distant land illunined as If
by lightning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-15

each consisting of a perfect
ly flat white ground adorned
with five and four, respec-
lively, strokes of color. The
strokes are parallel and on
an angle Of about twenty de-
greeS. Close behind her
is Howard Mehring, with his
familiar hand painted pat
terms for printed silk blouses,
this time combining four of
them at one go, as if samples
for a traveller in textiles.
On balance, though, the
title belongs to Gene Davis
for his enormous painting of
straight, vertical stripes in
assorted colors. Size has a
lot to do with these things
and only Mr.. Davis had that
much canvas or that long a
ruler. The piece is called
Niagara" and is apparently
based on the wallpaper in a
Buffalo hotel room.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-15

about IS cartoons by Herb
lock. the distinguished and
hard-hitting cartoonist of the
Washington Post. Predict
ably, too, there will be those
who say such day-to-day
comment on current events
has no place in an art gal
lery. They are wrong, as they
were about Daumier, Row.
landson and Hogarth and
would have been about the
Brueghel, Holbein and Dur
er's contemporaries, except
that art snobbery hadn't been
invented yet.
Although he works In a
tradition at least as old as
oil painting, the cartoonist
has a hard time getting rec
ignition these days. Partly
this is a question of fash
ion. You can always tell what
a good cartoon is about and
what it has to say. The fash
ion today is that art should
not be about anything and
should say nothing except a
few mumbled words about the
glory and mystery of art
itself.
But the cartoonist also suf-
fers from a kind of tech
biological downgrading. The
art snob can accept Holbein
because the stuff was carved
into wood and printed by that
traditional process. Daumier,
with reservations, is accept
able because his cartoons,
after all, are Autographs and
lithography is employed by
some of the most non-ob-
jective printmakers now
working. The contemporary
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-15
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Sew
euteenth street and New York avenue
NV. Daily. 10 am. to $50 pm;
Saturday. o am. to 4:30 pm;
Sunday and holidays, 2 to pm;
closed Monday.
DUMBARTON OAKS RESEARCH L.
BRARY AND COLLECTION, 1903
Thirty-second street NV. Closed
indefinitely.
FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth
street and jefferson drive S.W.
Daily, 8 am. to $3.50 pm.
NATIONAL COLLECTION OF FINE
ARTS, Constitution avenue at Tenth
street NV. Daily, am. to 4:30
pm.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, consti-
tuition avenue at Sixth street NV
Daily. 10 am. to 5 pm; Sunday.
2 to 10 pm.
PHILLIPS COLLECTION, 1912 Twenty
first street NV. Daily, IL am. to
pm; Monday, IL am. to 10
PM; Sunday. to 2 pm. s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-15

selves, but they'd look a lot
better If you didn't know the
artists more typical style.
Both titled Interior" one
looks down on q girl looking
up as she aScends a stair;
the other is a shimmering
nude, painted with great
economy and sureness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-15
Regional Artists

Several regional artists in
cluded in the show hold their
own with the bigger names,
especially Jacob Kainen, with
Woman Standing" and Sam
Fischer, with a carefully
wrought collage, "Cagli-
scape."
Also on view at the Cor
coran are the six paintings
from which the Friends will
choose their first gift or gifts
to the Gallery. Voting takes
place throughout the run of
the show.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-15
GuIerie Realities

Opening the season at the
Galerie Realities is a one
man show by a previously
unknown painter who moves
at once into the front rank
of Washington area abstract
artists. The Is large paint
ings by Kamran Diba are the
first exhibition of his work
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-15

cartoonist, however, very rare
ly works in or for such older
processes. Herblock certainly
doesn't. Like most others, he
makes drawings, from which
are made plates produced
photomechanically; from the
plates, after a few more
steps, are printed, the car
toons. Therefore, the rea-
soning runs, this is not art
and the cartoonist is not an
artist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-15
ART AND ARTISTS
Friends of Corcoron
Enrich Gallery Show
ART AND ARTISTS
By FRANK GETLEIN
Star Art Critic

The first exhibition Of the Friends of the Corcoran Gal
ery OF Art has opened at the Gallery proves Immediately
that the Friends friends indeed for the Gallery
to have The show also should eye opener those
melancholy types Who hungering after madden music
OF Manhattan murmur ACKNOWLEDGMENT rather monoo
nouSyWhat can do about art in dull old Washington?
The show has been assembled from the private colec-
lions OF the Friends, mostly Washington people, and
beauty For many visitors the first impression will be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-15
The Old Hands

OF the old hands with
nothing to say at all, there
are three present and it is
hard to tell which has least.
Mary Driven tries hard for
the title with a small cal
legro" and a larger "Fugue,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-15
Associated Artists

Predictably the most popu-
lar show in town is AS
sociated's new opening of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-15
A LOOK AT AMERICA
presents
THE GREAT
S "A K

Produced by the award winning News and
Public Affairs Department, kRON-TV, San
Francisco, this program tells the story of the
devastating San Francisco earthquake of 'o6.
Rare motion pictures and still photographs,
combine with the reading Of accounts written
at the time by Jack London, WIN Irwin and
James 3. Stetson, to provide truly unusual
presentation. Introduction is by William S.
Mailliard, United States Congressman from
San Francisco.
Evening star., 1961-02-27
Heart Massage Efforts Fail
ToSuve Utah Mutmun'sL Life

POWELL. Wyo.. Feb. 81 (AP)
Dramatic revival efforts
failed to save Douglas Bingham,
81, University Of Utah cham
pion wrestler. after he suffered
a heart attack during a match
Saturday night with q Wyo-
ming grappler.
Bingham collapsed on the
mat while wrestling in a 130-
pound match with Dave Ed
dington.
LAS soon as Eddington threw
a half nelson on Doug and he
didn't offer any resistance. ]
knew something was wrong"
Utah Coach Marvin Hess said.
DR.. Ray Christensen. among
the 900 spectators, hurried to
Bingham's side and ordered
him carried to a dressing room,
The doctor opened Bingham'S
Evening star., 1961-02-27
CurdozoSet
ForSpineorn
In PIuyoffs

Cardozo High School lost the
toss Of the coin with Coolidge
today and will play Spingarn
tomorrow in the first game of
the Interhigh League basket
ball playoffs.
They meet at $3.50 pm. at
Mckinley Tech. Coolidge and
Eastern play Wednesday at
the same time and site, and
the winners play for the league
championship Friday. again at
$3.50 at Tech.
Coach Frank Bolden, whose
Cardozo team beat Coolidge by
80 and "a points, but wound up
tied with the Colts for first
place in the West Division,
argued for a playoff game in
stead Of a coin-toss during the
meeting this morning at the
office Of Hardy Pearce, league
QlT6CLOT.
Pearce insisted on the coin
flip on the grounds that both
teams already are in the play
offs and that playing for seed
ing would be an unnecessary
strain on both clubs. {.
Cardozo thus gets the tougher
assignment, since defending
champion Spingarn has shown
clearly to be the best East
Division team with its 1910
league record. Eastern wound
up 9-3 In the East Division
and also lost to Cardozo by q
point early In the season.
Evening star., 1961-02-27
Poret's Manager
Hits Los Angeles
Fans After Upset

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 27 (AP)
-Gaspar Ortega, twice a victor
over Welterweight Champion
Benny Paret, may get a title
shot at the Cuban-but chances
are the rematch won't be held
in Los Angeles.
We'll never fight here
again." said Paret's manager,
Manuel Alfaro, after the cham
pion dropped a unanimous 10
round non-title bout to Ortega
Saturday night in a nationally
televised bout at Olympic
Auditorium.
Il was very annoyed by the
treatment my fighter got from
the crowd" Aliaro said. II
thought the decision was one
Of those things. A draw would
have been pleasanter for every
body"
Neither man was knocked
down in the fast-moving bout.
Paret weighed l54la, IN
pounds over the welterweight
limit. and Ortega, from Tijuana
Mexico, 149k2.
The loss is expected to de-
tract considerably from Paret's s
title bout with Emile Griffith
in Miami, April l.
Ortega scored a split decision
over the Cuban in 1859, before
Paret became champion.
Evening star., 1961-02-27
Meet VMI First

chest with a pen knife and be-
gan manual heart massage.
Bingham's teammates alter
mated giving mouth-to-mouth
resuscitation.
His heart began beating. An
ambulance took him to Powell
War Memorial Hospital where
four teammates donated blood
for three transfusions.
Shortly afterward Bingham's
heart stopped and direct heart
massage was applied again. But
he was pronounced dead at l
a.m.-four hours after he was
stricken.
Bingham, co-captain of the
team in his senior year, was
Skyline Conference champion
in his weight last season. He
was one of 13 children. He
leaves his widow, two sons and
a daughter.
Evening star., 1961-02-27
Burdette Signs for About $40,0 900;
Mantle Prodded to Take Charge

to post IS or more victories.
Twice he posted 20, twice 10.
But the frosting on the cake
was his no-hitter against Phil
adelphia at County Stadium
last August 10 in which he
doubled in the eighth and
scored the only run Of the
game.
Lew had a 3.36 earned-run
average last season.
Challenge by Houk
At st. Petersburg, Mickey
Mantle trotted out for a work
out today faced with the new
challenge Of becoming the
"take-charge guy" of the Yam
KEGS after a 10-year career ir
which he has Stunned the spot
light.
The reticent, 20 year ole
centerfielder, who batted .27E
while hitting 40 home runs anc
Evening star., 1961-02-27
By thOsAsSociated Press

Lew Burdette. the fidgety
Highlander who had q 1913
record and pitched his first
major league no-hitter last sea-
son, signed his 1861 Milwaukee
Braves contract today. He re-
portedly received a raise that
moved him close to the $40, 900
mark.
Burdette remained at his
home in Sarasota last week
when Braves batterymen re-
ported to Manager Chuck Dres-
sen at Bradenton. He drove
over to the camp this morning
conferred briefly with General
Manager John McHale and
signed on the dotted line.
It will be the 34-year-old
control artists 11th season with
the Braves. Only once in the
last eight years has he failed
Evening star., 1961-02-27
CoIonioIs Most Feared
In sc Second Division

.22.7; jeff Cohen Of William
and Mary, 22.5. and Jerry Smith
of Furman, 22.4.
CIV is represented on the
leading list by Jon Feldman
sixth with 1913, and Dick Mar
kowitz. ninth with 17.9.
Tournament palrings. with
seedlings and conference and
overall records are:
. p.m.-tUpper William
and Mary mo 4. 90, l2-9) VS.. Fur
man (No. 5, 81. 1910.
p.m.-Uower bracket)-The Ctta-
del mo. 3. 1913, 1870 VS.. Richmond
mo. &, SILL, 9-l3.
7:3O p.m.-NoWer bracketl-Vir-
ginia Tech mo. >, 1913. 1850 VS..
George washington mo. Z. 80. 6-16I.
$50 p,m.-(Upper brackeD-West
Virginia mo. !. ILL, 22-3) VS.. VMI
mo. s, 3-1I, 5-l6).
Evening star., 1961-02-27

collecting "a runs batted in last
season, was thrust squareiy
into the position yesterday
when Manager Ralph Houk
brought up the subject.
Mantle could be the leader
of the ball club" Houk said.
He has reached the point in
his career where that's posi-
BILE. I'm going to try to bring
that out in him. I talked with
him when he signed last
month, and I'll talk to him
some more"
Houk said that didn't mean
the switchhitting outfielder:
would officially be designated
captain, a post the Yankees
have kept vacant since the late
Lou Gehrig retired in 1889.
Stuart Comes to Terms
| While Houk was trying to-
work out that problem, Mana
ger Danny Murtaugh of the
world champion Pirates faced
the day with all hands on deck
and the annual contract
squabbling ended by the sign.
ing of First Baseman Dick
Stuart.
Terms for the 28-year-old
Stuart were not disclosed. The
big first sacker, who hit .260
during the 1860 campaign and
drove in SO runs while hitting
% homers, said: II got almost
what I wanted"
Also agreeing to terms as the
list Of unsigned ma jor leaguers
continued to dwindle was Mel
lie Fox. White Sox second base
man. --.
Fox repeatedly said yes to
the same $4O,0 900 salary he re-
ceived last year. Shortstop
Luis Aparicio. his double play
partner, hasn't signed yet, and
the club still has to settle with
Bob Shaw. Billy Goodman and
Turk Lown.
Evening star., 1961-02-27
MiI|ikan Wary
Of Break in
ACC Pairings
BY MERRELL WHITTLESEY
star Staff Writer

On paper it would appear
that Maryland gets a break
in the Atlantic Coast Confer
ence tournament by being in
the bracket away from Duke
and North Carolina State, but
Coach Bud Millikan doesn't
see it that way.
The Terps and Clemson open
the tournament at 2 pm.
Thursday in Raleigh. North
Carolina State plays South
Carolina at 4 pm. and Duke
meets Virginia at 8 o'clock.
Wake Forest draws a bye.
Duke, with Art Heyman back,
is the tournament favorite.
But N. c. State will have the
advantage of its home court,
plus the fact that it developed
into q good ball club in the
second half Of the season. II
Duke and N. c. State win as
expected in the first round,
they meet in the second semi
final game Friday night.
Millikan Fears DeacOns
The Maryland Clemson win
ner plays Wake Forest in the
first semifinal Friday night.
Millikan said that If hi.
Terps should get by Clemson
he would rather play Duke OF
N. c. State than Wake Forest
II realize Wake Forest has
a disappointing nonconference
record" the Maryland coach
said, but 1t puts so much en-
phasis on conference rivalries
that 1t doesn't seem to have
anything left for the outside
games.
And the Deacons are always
tough in the tournament
Bones Mckinney has the knacE
of getting those boys higher
than a kite.
I'VE almost beat the Blue
Devils, with Heyman, at Dur
ham, and we beat them with
out him up here. We beat
State here by 18 points, ever
though we lost twice in Raleigh
But Wake Forest beat Us
pretty good both home and
away. I'd have to say the Dea.
cons are the tournament IA
vorites in my book" the Mary
land coach said.
Chappell Tops Scorers
A Appoint outburst against
South Carolina Saturday night
gave Len Chappell Of Wake
Forest the regular-season scor-
ing title with a 25.6 average tc
24.9 for Heyman.
Wake Forest clinched the
No. / seeding in the tourna-
ment with its 11-3 conference
record, North Carolina had 6
1872 record, but withdrew from
the tournament. The Tar Heels
are on NCAA probation, anc
would not be eligible to play ir
the NCAA championship.
With the Tar Heels out oi
the tournament, interest is be.
low the pitch Of previous years
Maryland and Clemson were
scheduled to play in the night
See ACC, Page ALI