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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-08
All Americans

A few years ago. the in
formed art fan would have
said at a glance that these
Norwegians are all Ameri-
cans. really. Now, however,
increased exposure has
taught all of us to distin-
guish more subtly. Within
postwar painting of the non
objective kind there may
truly be discerned a Euro
pean way that is quite diff
ferent from the American.
The difference is organi-
cation. The Americans have
resolutely gone beyond or
ganization, either throwing
it overheard or never learn
ing it, depending on age. The
Europeans can't seem to do
that. Try as they will, they
cannot shake the. notion that
a painting should have COM
position. This disqualifieS
them at once from member
ship in the new American
painting" The disqualifica-
ton is quite evident In the
"A paintings, prints and
drawings now on view at the
Corcoran
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ART NOTES

Lloyd Goodrich, director Of
the Whitney Museum OF
American Art, New York, who
wrote the catalogue introduce
ton to the Eakins show at
the National Gallery Of Art,
will lecture on the painter to-
day at 4 pm at the Gallery.
Through october the Gal
erie Realite is showing paint
ings by Kamran Diba. an
Iranian artist now studying
in Washington
Opening today at the Arts
Club is an exhibition of land
scape paintings by william F.
Walter.
Opening Tuesday at AS
ISOLATED Artists Gallery is an
exhibition of original car
toons by Herblock, cartoonist
for the Washington Post.
Marlin Fenical is showing
recent paintings at the art
gallery of the Rockville Civic
Center.
The first public event, a
double-header, of the Friends
of the Corcoran Gallery of
Art takes place Thursday at
the Gallery at 9 pm. On view
will be an exhibition of
paintings and sculpture from
the private collections Of the
Friends. Also exhibited will
be a group of available works
by prominent American art
lists, one of which will be Sc
lected by the Friends as their
first gift to the Corcoran's
permanent collection. 4
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At the Corcoron

Much has been said, since
the end Of World War II, of
the Coca Colonization" Of
Europe. The original discus
sion began more than a dec
ade ago when the answer to
Whats news on the Ri
alto?" was seen in a float
ing sign. "Bivete Coca Cola"
At the moment, Punch is de-
voting a series of leanred ar
ticles to Sam Bull" the in
fluence of America on the
mother country. Nowhere
has the American influences
on Europe been more widely
touted nor more hotly dis
puted than In the rise of
"the new American paint
ing" as an export item.
AS in America, painting in
Europe went abruptly nom
objective after World War
II. Various jingoist press
agents for the American
style hailed this as Amer
ica's cultural conquest of the
Old World. Frances minister
of culture, among others, has
gone to considerable pains to
demonstrate that non-objec-
tive painting was old stuff in
the old country when the
Americans were still paint
ing pictures you could tell
the subjects of. The Museum
of Modehn Art has patriot
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-08
POINTS OF INTEREST
Time to Rally Round
Those Apple Trees

PENNSYLVANIA - If time
has passed you by and you've
never seen apple butter made
in old fashioned kettles, the
Gettysburg area is the place
to go next Saturday.
The Adams County Fruit
Growers Association, starting
the harvest of 100000 apple
trees, will hold the first Apple
Harvest Holiday at the South
Mountain fairgrounds, 10 miles
northwest of here near
Arendtsville.
The fairgrounds will also
be the start of guided tours
through some Of the 500 or
chards. Chairman Donald
Trostle. of Biglerville. suggested
visitors with cameras prepare
for brilliant color.
Harrisburg's National Horse
Show is scheduled to open
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-08

that foreign languages are
are spoken there.
What They'll Seek
Such development will be
needed at ports Of entries, at
transportation centers, hotels
and resorts. Mr.. Gilmore adj
mitted-and he could grin
about the task ahead.
Though he was sworn into
office only last August, he was
able to come up with a good
cross-section of what the an
ticipated influx Of visitors
might be.
They've indicated a great
interest in our natural won
ders, Grand Canyon and the
national parks" he said; in
our educational system and in
our Democratic system. Shop
ping no longer holds the lure
it did when goods were ir
short supply abroad"
Mr.. Gilmore was even able
to project q possible package
price for q two weeks visit tc
the States-"between $500 anc
$700" including transportation
Emphasizing that the new
Government Travel Service Il
to complement the travel in
dustry; not to intrude," hi
told the Voice of Americs
audience that the Visit
U. S. A." program is being
sold on a assessor" basis
from skis OF surf.
| Charles Yarbrough
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Putterns

Knut Rumohr seems to
paint in the manner most
reminiscent of recent Amer
icana. but again organization
saves the day. Any given
square foot of a Rumohr can
vas may be American" but
the whole is organized into
forms In space or scnees sug-
gestive of a cave system cut
into red rock. In the ne
elected medium of egg tenn
pera, he achieves striking,
often glaring, color effects;
red bangs against blue, yell
low against purple. But these
harsh dissonances, like those
of some modern music, are
organized into patterns. We
don't recognize the forms, but
we do see that there are
forms. We sense volumes and
feel space. Again, a European.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-08
Authority

1t is authority more than
anything that strikes the
viewer and that unifies the
show. The artist ranges from
representation to non-objec-
tive symbolism. .e
Neither term is entirely
satisfactory. The latter would
include Jericho" in which
the crash of the tumbling
walls is conveyed by black,
blocky shapes and bars PEN
etrated by a decisive but I'M
obtrusive form that might
be the shofar, or rams horn
blown by the priests. The
large vertical picture has an
instant sense Of destruction
with the weight Of the falling
blocks intensified by insist
ent light behind them.
Representation, for Mr.. Xii
ros, is very far removed from
harmless pictures Of barns
and boats. Evening Still
Life" like q number Of other
flower pictures in the show,
does something new with the
subject for the first time
since Georgia O'Keeffe made
her own meditationS on
things in bloom. The picture
poses an enormous plant be-
fore a window, the relations
being such that the leaves
and blossoms seem to fill the
universe. The sky outside Ii
still light; the plant is dark
The effect Is the reverse OF
photosynthesis, that conven-
lent process by which plant
life gets its sunshine vitamini
direct from the factory. Here
it seems that the huge plant
has sucked all the darkness
out Of the evneing and thriveI
on it.
The painting throughout Il
thin and luminous, even II
the darkest passages. Tit
thinness itself shows conf
dence, for in our time 9
painter has to dare to paint
thinly. The confidence is re.
peated In the dozen or Sc
drawings in the show. There
again the range is from alb
straction to a fine nude
study. There again every line
is drawn from authority b.
a man who knows exactly
what he wants to do and how
to do 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-08
BY FRANK GETLEIN
Star Art Critic

Moving into high gear for
what shapes up as o bril-
liant season, the National
Gallery Of Art today opens
its first painting exhibition
of the year. The show is the
third in the Nationals
series of American RETROSPECT
tives, following Bellows and
Homer. The subject is
Thomas Eakins. The show
at the National brings to-
gether over q hundred ex-
amples Of his work, mostly
paintings, for the most ex-
>tensive view. Of Eakins since
a Philadelphia Retrospective
following the death of the
city's distinguished citizen in
1916.
Despite recent abberrations,
the mainstream of American
art has been patient, honest
realism. Within that tradi-
ton, Eakins was the most
honest painter and the most
patient, the hardest worker
and the one most productive
of great American painting.
In his ady-he was born in
1844-Eakins was disparaged
for what, essentially, was
considered an excess of hon.
esty.. In our day his meth
DDS, his approach to art and
the look of his paintings are
disparaged for what is OBJ
viously considered an excess
of patience. 1t is not fash
ionable today, in art or in
artists personalities, to get
out of adolescence. 1t Is
thought you have lost all If
you lose the sweet bloom Of
tmmaturity.
Thomas Eakins was one of
the least adolescent painters
ever to work. One of the
great values of the exhibi-
ton is Its demonstration
that an artist can ignore
overt self-expression, can i'm
merse himself in subject
matter and in tedious tech
niques for rendering subject
matter, and end up with q
more compelling and more
enduring self = expression
than is ever possible to the
painter who devotes himself
whole heartedly and single
mindedly to expressing him
self.
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The Buder Gallery

One of the more superb
cial but nevertheless agree
able pleasures to be derived
from knocking around art
galleries is that of coming
upon an artist not yet wide
ly recognized who you know
in your bones Is of the breed
of giants. Such an expert
ence may now be had at the
Bader Gallery In the first
one-man show of Theodore
Kliros.
If you check artists out
like race-horses, you will find
the blood lines right. He
studied at the Art Students
League, Pratt and Yale. He
has exhibited in assorted
Eastern and Middle Western
group shows. including the
last Corcoran Biennial. The
Corcoran owns q picture Of
his. His teachers include Al
bers, Marca-Relli and Bur-
goyne Diller, yet there isn't
a trace of any Of the three
in his work. More important.
from the point Of view Of
this kind Of ofrm sheet.
traces Of other artists can
be found: Franz Marc, Ar
shile Cork and Kandinsky;
but all make minor, occa-
sional contributions. None
dominates even q single can
vas. The artist is his own
man and at 80 he paints with
the authority Of a painter
who'd been working for dec
AIDES,
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Between Rounds

This preoccupation with
skillful work dominates even
those pictures Of leisure acti-
vities. Leisure today means
watching television and guz-
cling beer. For Eakins and
the people he hung around
with, 1t was another form
of skilled work. One of the
great fight pictures. Be
tween rounds" illustrates
the point. The boxer-a pre-
lminary attraction named
Billy Smiths resting, but
every line of his body and
his face is poised toward
making the kill at the next
opening. The seconds are
hard at it with towel and
sponge. In the foreground
the official we see is the
timekeeper, alert to ring the
bell. In the background
stands a policeman, very
much on duty. Finally, of
the fight crowd itself. the
chief part visible is the work.
ing press.
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ART AND ARTISTS
National Gallery Opens q Third
American Show With Eokins Art

ically shipped the new"
painting overseas and even
more periodically has dis
covered foreigners who could
do the same kind of paint
ing for a return game in New
York.
So it goes. It's hard to tell
the score at any given mo-
ment because the game is
played simultaneously on
many different fields and
the rules are always chang
ing. For the interested spec
tator, however, a number Of
clues are offered in the cur
rent exhibition at the Cor
coran, Eight Painters From
Norway"
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Eukins' World

The reason seems to be
that only by somehow getting
in touch with the world
around you can you pick up
q self worth expressing at all.
The world around Eakins
comes through in the show as
If preserved in colorless am
Der, but the soul OF the
painter comes through as
well. Both are inseparable
from the patient skills of eye
and hand that made the
paintings, that made Tom
Eakins and that have their
equivalents in the things, the
people and the places he
painted.
People more than anything.
Almost all the great paint
ings are in the show and
they all have to do with
people at work. When you
think of it. people at work
are fairly rare in the pic
lures of Eakins's contempt
raries, the ImpressionistS.
Eakins could paint nothing
else. Both the Clinic pic
lures, the Gross" and the
"Agnew," are basically studies
of men at work. In both
the focus Is on the lecturing
surgeon. His assistants are
totally intent on the work Of
the operation; the students
on the work of observation
and understanding. The two
kinds of work come together
in the commanding surgeon,
the point of intersection OF
the two intensities. In both
pictures, too the professional
absorption is contrasted with
the non-professional response.
In 1.-The Gross Clinic" the
patients mother shields her
eyes with rigid fingers. In
the "Agnew" this counter
point is carried by the UNI
conscious body of the patient
and by the mixture Of ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-08

next Saturday to run through
the week.
y
WEST VIRGNIA-Spencer's
Black Walnut Festival, with a
livestock show, OK roast, parade
are on the program for this
annual event Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday. The empha-
sis. as might be indicated, is
on black walnut foods.
H&h
NEW YORK Mans prog
ress in the conquest of space
is the theme of q great public
exhibition opening tomorrow
for six days in the New York
City Coliseum. 1t is sponsored
by the American Rocket So
ciety.
NORTH CAROLINA - The
18th annual surf-fishing tour
nament is set at Mays Head
Thursday and Friday.
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AIR FARE
Fleet Going
For q Rest

Planning an air trip this
week end?
Don't forget tkat the second
annual test of North American
air defenses will ground all air.
craft except the military in the
United States and Canada from
i pm. Saturday to / am.
(EDTO Sunday.
Airlines are already at work
revising schedules after a les
son from last years six-hour
Operation Sky Shield.
4 -
If airline progress isn't care
full, it's going to eliminate that
Inerve-rasping reservations are
busy, will you wait, please?"
National Airlines now has
instant phone service" for the
passenger who shows UP at
ticket counters in New York and
Newark seeking a commuter
ticket to such points as Wash
ington. Baltimore, Philadelphia,
Norfolk, Boston and Newport
News.
When ticket agents are busy
passengers may pick up a green
telephone, dial Is" to reach q
special commuter desk in Ma
tionars New York reservations
center. Reservations" says Ma
tional, "can thus be processec
Immediately, with the passen-
ger claiming his ticket at flight
time"
They could have called a new.
ly-announced African safar
instant hunting" Perillo- Grit.
fifth Travel Service. of Pear
River. N. Y, is announcing 6
44-day Safari to African biz
game country by Jet.
Named Operation Las
Look" because the trip goe'
into areas where animals ma.
be facing extinction, the safar
leaves New York February
and terminates in Rome March
Is.
Il
Trans World Airlines inau'
gurated jet service between st
Louis, Washington Baltimore
Friendship Airport and Bos'
ton last week. using Boeint
720-B Superjets.
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Missing Nude

The show is marred some
what by the absence of a cou-
pie of the pictures having to
do with William Rush Cary
ing his Allegorical Figure Of
the Schuylkill River" This is
a great shame. the more so
since one of the missing full
scale studies is in a private
Washington collection. The
problem for Rush. in 1909
was that he saw the Schuyl-
kill as a nude girl and Phil
adelphia didn't care much for
that kind of thing. The prob
lem also existed for the
painter, toward the end Of
that century; Philadelphia's
thought, as memorably ex-
pressed by one of its matrons,
was that tom Eakins is
somewhat hipped on nudes"
Apparently the problem con-
tinues to exist for the art
museum catering to the en-
tire family and deriving
support from a congress
passionately devoted to
wholesomeness.
The central Rush painting
made it, though, along with
sketches and a sculptured re-
lief. The light glistens down
the flank of the girl, seen
decorously from the rear. In
the surrounding gloom are
the chaperon, studio equip
ment and the dim figure OF
Rush, toiling away for all the
world as If he were Thomas
Eakins chipping his path
through ignorance and hos
tility toward a greatness
based on an American tradi-
ton of faithfully putting
down what meets the trained
and knowing eve
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-08


but his enthusiasm over the
Governments new tourist pro-
gram certainly did.
First of the offices abroad
in Paris-to help sell Ameri-
cas- tourist possibilities opened
last Monday. London will open
yet this month and those in
Frankfurt, Caracas, Sydney
and Tokyo are expected to be
in business within two months
Imposing Chores
The task is awesome. Lam
guage barriers, currency ex-
change, customs red tape, re-
vising of transportation, hotel
and fees to fit into package
tours attractive enough for the
average foreigners purse.
Yet at every question put
to him by a panel of three
|newsmen, MIR. Gilmore was
bubbling with optimism.
The travel industry in al
parts of the country, he tolc
his worldwide audience, il
coming through with great en-.
thusiaSrn.
He even took note that many
new restaurants are opening
in Washington with foods visi'
tors from abroad will seek
Ever try to get a hamburger
in AfghanistanO
Many other Washington eat
ing places are placing window
cards and menu clips, advising
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Boot Racing

Eakins' vision of JOY
through work reaches its SUI
preme achievement in the
boat racing pictures, which
begin and end the show. Like
Billy Smith the boxer, Max
Schmitt in a Single Scull"
is resting. on the oars and on
the surface of the Schuylkill
River. The artists personal
system of perspective. an ex-
tremely sophisticated one,
holds the rivers bridges, the
banks, the boats and the fig
ures in a kind of universal
grid built for precision and
built to endure,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-08

represented, for instance,
have done mural work in
public buildings and all Nor
wegian artists can expect the
financial help r at h e r than
the hectoring opposition Of
their government. Such cir
cumstances may explain the
higher degree of commune
cation evident in the art,
as compared to American art.
Such circumstances, it is all
but forgotten, obtained in
American art as recently as
Is years ago, and may again.
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PERMANENT COLLECTION:

CORcoRAN GALLERY OF ART, sew
enteenth street and New York svenue
NV. Daily, 10 am. to 4:30 pm.
Saturday, 9 am. to z:30 pm:
sunday and holidays, 2 to 8 pm.
closed Monday.
DUMBARTON OAKS RESEARCH L.
BRARY AND COLLECTION, 1908
Thirty-second street NV. Closed
indefinitely.
FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth
street and jefferson drive s.W'
NATIONAL COLLECTION OF FINE
ARTS, Constitution avenue at Tenth
street NV. Daily, 8 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. II am
to PM; Monday, IL am. to IL
PM; Sunday, to q pm.
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Texture

ample, might be supposed to
be quite close : to the over
riding interest in texture that
characterized the American
painting Of the sos. His sur
faces are thick and gnarled.
almost as if the earth itself
were boiling. Yet color Or
ganizes the pictures strictly.
He goes further still. His til
ties tip his hand: "Autumnal
Underground" Moss and
Leaves, Pine Stump" and
From the Forest" Given the
titles there is a perceivable
connection between the paint
ings and the subjects named.
His nature paintings are
analogous to the close-in
photography. Of recent years
in which a familiar subject.
from being seen intimately,
yields a completely unexpect-
ed, abstract pattern. But ma
ture paintings they remain
and this is completely taboo
for an American painter of
the sos. The man is Eu-
ropean.
At the opposite extreme Of
abstraction are Gunnar Gum
dersen and Odd Tandberg.
Both are hard edge men, 60
ing in for geometrical place
figures. MIR. Gundersen gives
the impression of a jazz ka-
leidoscope suddenly frozen.
Mr.. Tandberg doesn't let his
shapes overlap so much as
interlock. At least once, in
Composition s." he puts the
pieces together in such a way
as to suggest a mysterious
interior,
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In rodition

Ludwig Eikaas quite frank
ly paints things and people,
not entirely as If the Ameri-
can gospel of the 'fifties had
never been preached, but as
If 1t were a minor contribu-
ton to a living European
tradition.
The Corcoran's Gudmund
Vigtel, who organized the
show, reports enthusiastical-
ly on the excellent social
health of painting in Nor
way. All eight of the artists
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WELCOME TO u. S. A.
TroveI Service Heed
Inviting the World

Stary-eyed as man about to start a vacation
himself Volt Gilmore, director of the new United
States Travel Service last week got off his personal
invitation for the world to visit U. S. A."
In 80 minutes on a Voice of America tape he
reached foreign ears than his eventual farflung
offices abroad can possibly reach in six months.
On tape, his vgor and personality couldn't show
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-08

preston on the face of the
nurse: Professional interest
and womanly pity.
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Small Congregation

Decker Chapel, near st.
Mary's, Pa, in the north-cen-
trail section, claims to be the
Nations smallest church. It
can accommodate 80 persons
and is always open.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1961-10-12

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Savings & Loan
Shows Third
Quarter Raise

East Cleveland Savings and
Loan Company today released
it's third quarter financial
statement, showing "substan-
tial" increases in assets, loans,
and savings.
According to executive vice
president Robert c. Knox, as
sets have increased 10 percent
to $28,12O,OOO since this date
last year. Savings climbed
from $21 ,483,0O0 to $24,297,-
600, and loans from $22,489,-
900 to $24,486,000 during the
same period.
Zone factor apparent from
the increased savings total" ="
Knox says "is that there is an
increased pool of mortgage
funds available. New mort
gage loans have just begun to
increase. and should continue
to pick up during the last
quarter of this year and dur
ing the first of 1862"
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