The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 2, 1953, Page 5

> ALS — NEWS OF INTEREST TO WOMEN Page 5 Final All-Key West Artists’ Exhibit Draws Record Crowd At Opening By DOROTHY RAYMER Preview of the all-Key West Artists show Tuesday night was the best attended opening of the year, with over 100 patrons pres- ent. It is also the last of the season’s series which were presented at East Martello Tower gallery under the auspices of the Key West Art and Historical Society. Thanks to the effort of Elvira Reilly, artist and program director, this display is a fitting climax and most representative of Key West. Mrs, Reilly scoured the town to get newcomers as well as familiar painters to enter the show. Conse- quently, the scope is stimulating and expansive. There are 54 paintings, most of them in oils and watercolors, a| Rico. He used a pure orange back- few in pastels and caseins. ground for some Key limes, sliced New entries include Effie Fer-|avacado and the branch of a lime nandez’ primitive art. “Fort Jef-|tree with white-green blossom. ferson,” in oil, has realistic detail! In the professional established | to commend it but is not as in-|class, Gene Otte’s still life, “Gua-| teresting as the oil, “To Market,” |temalan Mood” has the master’s: which has undeniable charm. It|sure touch, harmony of composi-| could be any landscape in the West ; tion and is polished as the maho- | Indies, but is to.me, Jamaican. A‘ gany wood which he reproduces on | man on a donkey, 2 woman with ‘canvas. A burnished cooper bowl, a basket on her bandanaed head, | up-ended, a family bronze-tinted another figure seated by the wind-| shell, a fascinating little image,’ ing road are in the ‘foreground.| complete the objects in the meti- | ‘The sky and the landscape objects ; culously done study. Otto is noted | are bathed jn tropical misted for the luminous glow of his paint- Navarro-Bardecki_| Dinner, Reception Slated Thursday Nuptials Planned |For Fleet Reserve Association Head Charter List, Order Of Does, hil [ é f 2 : Be 2 piri in| 44ults Graduate hy the Rev. John) From San Carlos «-|Monday, March 30 Pd Plog gen fps bt pang Miss | Cariog School last Monday, March ;90 at the school hail. ei arrangements must be in by April 6. Shipmate Sandefer recently re- turned from a meeting of all the representatives of the Fleet Re- serve Association held in Washing- D.C. no doubt have | H 5 $23 i i G iS z£ Hs g ul i ru! i i i Hg a g F oF ise Se i Ee fl | 5 H a3 i ' i : i ets RE nt F ef i i : é : rH if FE ae i? i Ree fH H iy & § ? i ty i : é£ F i is eet : : i 5 i h i a2 i °F F : ° dawn. This one was sold opening night to Mrs. Virginia Komlos. Another picturesque primitive, “Old Habana,” by Eduardo Hen- riquez, was bought by Mrs. J. Edgar Willing. Henriquez is a member of the Key West Artists group. This oil has perspective with the skyscrapers of modern ‘Havana in the background, while in the foreground, sundrenched old buildings with little balconies, are contrasted sharply with the dark street on which a flower vendor pushes his cart. Jose Martinez, a. Key West artist with a wealth of natural talent, who is certain to graduate from the amateur class into wider re- cognition as time goes on, is in a class by bimself, He is realistic, volatile, probably unaware of Ia-j tent power which is beginning to furn the turbine of creativness, At present, he has a tendency to experiment. For example, there is one still life, one action seas- cape with men in a sailing boat, and one mood painting with a cen- tral figure done in green and shadows. This’ oil tells a story the way paintings were more apt to do in the 18th and 19th centuries. It's ca}led ‘Desperation’ but hardly necds.a title to convey the mean- int. It has a terrific heart-rending impact but is s iy a gallery study. To have it in a home would it again St ame the study of ; ph moony man bengeegy vl ines, struggling with his emo- tions, seated with bowed head, his face concealed, a helmet on the ground before him surrounded by | chain-smoked cigarette butts. (As this was written, Mrs, Reilly ealled to say that Julius F. Stone, dr., had purchased the painting | and had presented it to the Eas' Martello Gallery)! The still life won for Martinez third prize in the International Amateur Painter's competition and ft was hung in the show at Puerto Key ereckers were served the over Art . Right is Mra. Wallace B. Kirke, Club, A ting of vari-nued croton leaves decorated the table. ings of metals, and is a perfec- tionst with adumbrated touches. Other still lifes in the current show are favorites, too. Gertrude Laubscher has come up with a lovely and brilliant one of scarlet hibiscus in a pewter or unpolished silver container for cool relief, flanked on one side by a Chinese image, the entire setting on a two copal Church. Miss Navarro PRETTY SOCIALITE, Cornelia Jeanne Navarro, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dan L. Navarro, will become the bride of Lt. (j.g.) Frank J. Bardecki Sunday afternoon at St. Paul’s Epis- ri. Hei ry we is one of the most popular of the younger set in Key West—Photo by Poray Studio, toned. blue striped cloth. Miss Laubscher has developed a fine sense of color and lost the ‘‘muddi- ness” of earlier work. Anna Carolan has a quiet and restful still life of heavy-headed garden flowers in a glass vase, the stems showing through the erystal. This effect is difficult to| capture but she has done it, using silvery values with soft yellows, “Shrimp Boats,” in deep rich colors with the waves whooshing the craft into a huddle. Voloshin has another oil, “Waterfront Shacks,” executed with definite de- sign. He uses off-primary colors for this with tawny orange, burnt orange and green tonalities. Margaret Weisel offers “Key West Beach,” with green water green and pointlighting of orange. | and a primitive style. George Gar- “Symphony in Yellow” a study jeia’s “Old Boat,” is impressionis- by Adeline Ross, utilized a blue |tic bordering into abstraction. He and cream drape, a cream-pearl|uses heavy pigment with: textural mug and muted yellow blossom | effect in this and for “Transfigura- — cag! — com- | tion,” a unique creation with blue position. This is muc! tter than | and copper-red objects. her “Serenity” seascape which has| -Lee Albert's casein “Boats At excellent cloud effect and nice | Rest” in blues predominating has enh ¢ hahaa a = blues Lag perspective and tranquil- is flattish in the water spaces. | lity. In the seascapes, Gerald Leake,| The Kidds, Edyth and Hari seem who has spent decades capturing | to have a kindred interpretation wind on waves, sunrays and moon-|aithough there are -subtle differ- oe vod ~ is by 2 doubt; ences and of course uae = le) ¢ of oil painters.}has the most. power. Both exhibit “Sparkling Sea,” a magnificent/a fondness for the heavy palette panoramic oil, dances with the |and vigor with stimulating psycho- shimmer of light on mobile water. | logicat content and underlying bie Peachey 4 are pears symbolism. Edyth’s “Fishnet Bal- with actual feel e wind pour- ed from the sky's flacon into the] preoccupation with arabesque pat- bowl of the ocean, tetn, shorelines, palm tops and And so we come to the water-| mountains undulating and follow- front and the subjects change to | ing each other. Her colors are boats, shrimpers, sailing .craft,/used with surprising exuberance docked or abandoned, at peace or and resonace in tumult as in “Storm Brewing,” a darkly lighted conventional! oil by | mental basicness, His huge, over- Lee Albert with stormy sky, and | whelming mother hovering over a wind swept palms fringing the | thick bodied child in “Spring,” land. Or the placid, almost photo-| has earthy quality. Impressive is graphic “Tied «Up, by Gustave | “Towers of Key West,” in which —— roll beautiful cypress |a violent magenta sky, the billow- me. | towering cumulous cloud. let,” and “The New World,” show | Hari Kidd has a positive monu-/ Jutian Voloshin’s |ing trees, and the upthrust of ar-/ chiteetural creations dwarf a tiny figure riding a bicycle far below. He hints of abstraction but with- jout distraction. Larry. Karns pulls out the stops in the abstract, “Sacred Feather- ed Serpent.” This ancient Aztec symbol of the universe, and all life in it, spins your imagination, but it. may leave you dizzy with the effort. But just to prove that he isn’t a dub at draughtsmanship, there's “Yellow Head,” a wonder-|a newcomer, Connie ful study of the head of a native | woman, done in pastel with over- |laying green-gold surface. The only major portrait art- jist in the exhibit is Lewisjof Stage Manager Strong. Both heads of young wo- of the story. B men are done in pastel with crafté- is engineer, bui manship, a wonderful sense of per-|estate developer. sonality . insight and in one,jis a Key W the luminous yellow used for facial planes, plays up the structure. with a excellent Strong seems to have evalved new method for this po It is captivating and progressive. Mollie Garnett achieves a approach to the boat subject “King Conch,” the title taken from |the central shrimping craft in the ‘concise watercolor. There is ins- piration of a crisp day in the | fluttering boat penants, the swirl ‘of clouds, the clarity of tints. ole Trene Glinos injects a note jary. - | pathos in the little house surround-{ Connie, # pert little jed with. enroaching weeds andjwith a southern actent (she \trees, called simply “Casa.” The|in Georgia) was born in \sky is a bit too carelessly done, |nama L but that may be from hurried ex- | dat ecution. She admitted. that the striking oil, “Emotion: study of a clown in merry makeup but with | Ametics ‘a natural sad expression beneath |and she jhis grotesque paint, was still wet | there. from last brush strokes. Miss Gli-| ~Mrs. nos has obvious Hanes AR pape: Ability, solid jee for color, motion, deta” and all the other fluid ease of sion which comes with experience are evident in ail of Elvira Reilly’ and Lephe Holden’s works. M Holden deviates into a whimsey in “Frost Stick,” wai color of a pickaninny licking frozen ice. Broader humor is dent in “Pay Day,” Rese ~— and women near the on }wal Street. “Beachcomber’s Cas- | remarkable ite," has nice juxtaposition of a tered the 1951 American stone ruin jutting up’ against a} Voice of Democracy contest. Con- jie came out second winner in the | Mrs. Reilly's “Key West Lane,” | contest in the entire State. | is a poetical nostalgic scene with| Connie isists that her i two most difficult roles i the Thornton Wilder an eke : ihe ss ip geek i si ry se 58 g HY HH #93 3 £ 2,88 Ee i i }| suntipped trees, a dusty little path | actual training in the field was the i 3 “Shrimpers” are vibrant with ; dor, serving, is Mrs. Harold J. Reilly, program Society which sponsors the current show at Ea: President of the Key West Woman's Ripe and stuffed oliw 100 guests whe sttended. Picture in the ackgren Lee Albert, one of the enirants in the show which is the last and the most colorful of the season. Visltors to the gallery may cast axtG@t Will receive a substant and be one of the voters. votes for the picture they would most like to oxn. The winning cash award. Go o . at any day, except Monday, fram soon to five Finch, Citizen Staff Photo. and the sleepy Key West shacks | year im Canada. a lining It, “Through The Net,” and| “After sebool,” she stgtes | sea | simply, “' | shades, especially in the latter oil g with its foreground of rippling ors, His “Pelican On Dock,” was sold opening night. He has caught other Key West typicana with can- humor, delicate and forceful } FOR THE EN TIRE FAMILY MUST GQ "WAY DOWN! 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