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8 Art New York Herald Tribune Saturday, February 26, 1966
ART TOUR
THE GALLERIES - A CRITICAL GUIDE
Each Saturday the Herald Tribune publishes as a reader service for gallery-hoppers this critical guide to the week's new exhibitions, edited by Emily Genauer. To save time and steps, it charts a gallery-to-gallery course in separate areas of the city. Lengthier, reviews of major new exhibitions, by Miss Genauer and John Gruen, appear in the New York Magazine of the Sunday Herald Tribune and in daily editions.
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"Ulla," by Leland Bell, at the Schoelkopf Gallery.
UPPER MADISON AVE.
Nicholas de Stael (Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Madison): A lengthy examination of a tragically short career is offered in this first American museum survey of paintings, collages, and drawings by the Russian-born French artist who, before his suicide in 1955 at the age of 41, had won an international reputation. No clue to his tragedy is offered in the show. The earliest picture (a melancholy 1941 portrait of his girl) is skillful student work. There follows a short and turbulent period of dark but richly encrusted and explosively designed abstractions. Toward the end came vibrant, serene, luminous, almost too-decorative nudes and landscapes. Many influences (Braque, Matisse) were fused in him: he, in turn, affected younger painters. His contribution was real, although not major. He was, certainly, one of the more interesting figures in a period when French art was marking time after the great School-of-Paris putsch. E. G.
European Drawings (Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Madison): A very large and uncommonly fine survey of European 20th century drawings takes special interest from its emphasis on the generally unfamiliar contribution made by artists of the Scandinavian countries, Belgium, Holland, and the countries of Central Europe. The strongest direction is expressionism, with leanings toward the demoniac and the irrational. Wols, Alechinsky, Pedersen are some of the best men included. All stand as proof that line alone may be a more challenging, communicative, pure vehicle for expressive improvisation than pigment, where the direct statement of hand, mind and emotion can be obscured by the emotional properties of color itself. E.G
"141st Annual Exhibition"
(National Academy of Design, 1083 Fifth): This huge compendium mounted annually by one of the oldest of the art academies proves predictably true to form. Stultifying academicism reigns supreme as artists like Pleissner, Gladys Rockmore Davis, and Chen Chi, among many, many others, produce works frozen in their respective styles. Some bright elements are present, however. A charming watercolor, "Doll with Bird" by Shirley Wells Kerruish, brightens that section, and works by Isabel Bishop, Burton Silverman and Robert Vickrey add considerable luster to the show. J.G.
Jane Smith (Cisneros, 1316 Madison): It's been some time since we've had a show devoted exclusively to the still life, and this one, by the talented wife of music critic Winthrop Sargeant, turns out to be exceptional. Miss Smith takes bottles, fruits, bowls, tables and draperies and transforms them into lyrical statements of pure color, and form. The paintings-neither realistic nor abstract-synthesize Matisse, Villon and Braque without directly borrowing from any of them. A fresh and beautiful show! J.G
Gabor Peterdi (Borgenicht, 1018 Madison): This well-known printmaker tackles a new medium-the monotype-and tackles it with his customary sensitivity and brilliance. Thematically based on landscape, these large monotypes contain certain hard-edge elements, relieved, now and then, by fluid and lyrical passages in which color and form are subtly united. A small series of strange and beautiful figurative mixed-media drawings round out this most satisfying show. J.G.
Costantino Nivola (Bryon 1018 Madison): Sculptor Nivola shows drawings most of which center on figures in, on, or around a bed. Movement is implicit in each of them and the lines flow with all manner of purity, economy and lyricism. Elsewhere, family groups-a la Henry Moore-show a typical sculptor's hand bringing volume, form and directness to a familiar theme J. G
Gregory Gillespie (Forum, 1018 Madison): young "old master" offers a first New York show of unusual interest. Oil, egg, tempera, and occasional passages of collage are employed to create dark, dense "Renaissance" landscapes and interiors in which figures, in groups or singly, are seen strolling in Italian or Spanish squares or engaged in other activities. The paintings are very small (with one exception) and make clear Gillespie's gift for creating a personal, intimate atmosphere in which even the minutest detail becomes charged with an expressive life of its own. J. G.
Cy Twombly (Castelli, 4 E. 77th): Twombly's charm is that he draws and doodles like a child. The works on view have all the freshness, unpredictability and unconscious wit that very young children display when given pencil and paper. Since Twombly is a grown-up, the word sophistication enters into it, but let's not stress it. The point is, the drawings have a nutty beauty about them, and that counts for much. J.G
Gilcenstein (Chapellier, 21 E. 75th & 943 Madison); Intense, expressionistic figures by the late sculptor continue to make clear his special talent for fusing depth of feeling with a rough and virile technique. In short, matter and spirit are united wherever one looks. J.G
"New Banners" (Multiples, Inc., 929 Madison): Pop art looks good on banners. A banner is, after all, akin to a huge poster in which the message must be perceived with the least visual or mental effort. On view are handsome and characteristic works by Dine, Lichtenstein, Trova, Warhol, Ramos and Fahlstrom. Each work comes in a limited edition, in keeping with the concept devised by Multiples, Inc. J.G
Peter Shulman (Southampton East, 145 E. 72d): "America in the Sky" is the title of this handsome show by a young artist obviously enamored of the U.S warplane. He paints many of these in a flat, hard-edge manner while never abandoning their intrinsic beauty of form or color. Aerial views of farmlands serve as background. In combination, plane and land contrive to give these works an impressive force and immediacy. J..G
Leland Bell (Schoelkopf, 825 Madison): One of the best of the New York figurative painters concentrates on a group of three figures around a table engaged in capturing a butterfly. This theme, repeated in several paintings, offers Bell the opportunity of giving free compositional play to physical gesture and stance-and the results are both fluid and marvelously controlled. Also on view are some remarkable portraits of the artist's wife and friends. J. G.
Eugene Morrell, Sue Mitchell (Bodley, 787 Madison): Layer upon layer of encrusted pigment form monstrous heads or heavy celestial galaxies in Morrell's awkward and ponderous work. Miss Mitchell's paintings of wind-stirred foliage come as a relief, but it is momentary. J.G.
Herbert Katzman (Dintenfass, 18 E. 67th): A Soutine-esque brushstroke ignites these paintings by an artist who makes room for elegance even while the emotions boil. Katzman paints landscapes and figures (three canvases of a young girl on a horse are splendid homages to 18th Century English portraiture) that have a directness going straight to the heart of each subject. And a number of self-portraits are first-rate. J.G.
Helen Basilevsky (Scarabeus, 23 E. 60th): Basilevsky paints birds, animals, and figures on natural stones, whose shapes predetermine the choice of the specific image so completely that there is a strong sculptural illusion. Both the idea and its execution are delightful. C.L.
Yvaral (Howard Wise, 50 W. 57th): Son of Vasarely, leader in the international optical art movement, Yvaral combines optical techniques with kinetic in the works in his first American solo show. He employs in his constructions fixed, geometrically patterned surfaces seen through moving "curtains" of plastic rods, ripples of water activated by drops falling into a bowl from overhead, and similar devices. The resulting images have elegance, sparkle, but fairly limited interest. Yvaral is a sensitive, skilled, experimenting craftsman. So far, however, he has little to say beyond the simple fact that moving, slipping, elusive patterns can be eye-satisfying - for a while. E.G.
Robert Watts (Bianchini, 50 W. 57th): Pristine outdoor table settings featuring TV dinners have been created by this artist known for his environmental sculpture concerned, on the main, with food items. Everything is cool and silent, and no one sits at any of the tables. Watts encases his plates, forks, wine-glasses, etc., in clear plastic, and arranges them all with great elegance. Yet all is simulated or photographed, as are many other objects. A certain eeriness creeps through this show, but it is arresting and stimulating nonetheless. J.G.
Robert Reid (Grand Central Moderns, 3 W. 56th): Called "Our Games," this series of calligraphic paintings and collages combines literary symbols, numbers and words, to point up the hypocrisy of our social ethics with discreet but poignant irony. In addition to his acuteness of perception, Reid's work is based on a fine sense of texture, color, and design. C.L.
Budd Hopkins (Pointexter, 21 W. 56th): In these striking canvases force and subtlety interact, as do abstract expressionist areas and dynamic hard-edge shapes. Hopkins thus achieves an authoritative, vital and yet poetic painterly statement, which transcends the narrow confines of most current isms. C.L.
Kenneth Noland (Emmerich, 41 E. 57th): Noland's idiom still consists of superbly related stripes. But this year's chevron shaped and horizontal canvases have become more elongated and thus even more elegant. C.L.
John Dodd (AA, 68 E. 57th): In many of his paintings and drawings, Dodd is still the all-too-faithful disciple of his former teachers, Ben Shahn and Jack Levine. But where he goes beyond them, he combines a fine sense of humor and perception with a pictorial inventiveness pointing the way to more independent works to come. C.L.
57th STREET & ENVIRONS
Albert Vanderburg (Teuscher, 53 W. 83d): Titled "Poseidon," "Jabberwocky" or "Canaletto," these very attractive colored plywood sculptures act upon the viewer as three dimensional shadow images of subtly distilled literary themes. C.L.
Jean Albert and Vibart Rose Gara (AGBU, 109 E. 40th): This Armenian couple shows evocative and colorful abstractions. Rose shows carved and closely related organic shapes, while Albert explores metaphysical ideals inspired by Teilhard de Chardin. His paintings are more formal and derive from Mondrian. Both artists make interesting and individual statements. C.L.
Percy Sutton Is Front-Runner
Scramble for Borough President
By David Murray
Of The Herald Tribune Staff
Percy Sutton, Harlem district leader and one of the sharper minds in the Assembly in Albany, is emerging as the front-runner to fill the post of Manhattan Borough President.
In a meeting of the administrative council of the New York Democratic County Committee two weeks ago, the field, for all practical purposes, was narrowed to two - Mr. Sutton and Herbert Evans, chairman of the Housing and Redevelopment Board.
The choice will be made by the Manhattan members of the City Council within a few weeks after the current Borough President, Constance Baker Motley, is sworn in as a Federal judge. She was appointed last month by President Johnson, but the appointment must be confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Mr. Evans if the personal choice of J. Raymond Jones, the county chairman, and under normal conditions Mr. Evans should have the edge. But there are a number of Democrats who feel that Mr. Sutton might be more acceptable to the council because he has a broader base of support.
Mr. Sutton, for one thing, is probably more acceptable to Reform Democrats, who are gaining considerable strength on the City Council. Manhattan Reformers are inclined to be cool toward Mr. Jones' choice.
In local Democratic politics, Mr. Sutton's role in the last few months as a founder and prime mover in the Council of Elected Negro Democrats has increased his stature. The Council, which is made up of some 30 public and political office holders, already has emerged as a major power bloc in Albany, where eight Assemblymen and four Senators are included in its members.
Largely through the efforts of Mr. Sutton, it has broken down racial barriers by placing its members on previously "lily-white" committees and managed to exert enough muscle to force Assembly Speaker Anthony Travia to name Assemblyman Bertram Baker, a fellow-Brooklynite, to the post of Assembly Democratic Whip.
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Associated Press wirephoto
Assemblyman Percy Sutton in Albany Thursday.
St. John's Increases Faculty Salaries ; A $500,000 Package for 1966-'67
By Joseph Michalak
Of The Herald Tribune Staff
Strike-troubled St. John's University announced Thursday its third change in faculty salaries in a year - with a half-million-dollar package to hike professors' salaries as much as $750 for the 1966-'67 academic year.
The United Federation of College Teachers, which has led the teachers' strike at the university's two campuses since Jan. 4., immediately labeled the increase an "out-and-out bribe to dissuade 100 members of the faculty from resigning at the end of the current year."
Dr. Israel Kuler, UFCT president, said "we liken the increases to the 30 pieces of silver offered at another time in human history."
But the Very Rev. Joseph T. Cahill, St. John's president, said the university's trustees were carrying out a commitment made last September to review the salary schedule and, if possible, make adjustments.
Father Cahill said the new minimum salaries would lift St. John's to the "A" category in three scales - for instructors, assistant professors and associate professors - under the standards set up by the American Association of University Professors. For full professors, being raised from a minimum of $10,250 to $11,000, the university will now have a "B" rating, he said.
Under the changes, minimums for instructors will go from $6,000 to $6,500; assistant professors, from $7,250 to $7,800 and associate professors, from $8,850 to $9,550. The maximums will be $9,200 for instructors; $11,500 for assistant tprofessors, and $14,000 for associate professors.
The full professors' top pay will remain open.
Father Cahill said the changes include conversion of the 12-month contracts to 10-month contracts, thus giving most faculty members more compensation for the two regular semesters than they previously received for teaching two semesters plus a summer session. Compensation for summer teaching will be additinal.
St. John's announced its first salary adjustments last April 9 in the face of a threatened teachers' strike, raising salaries by as much as $300. On Sept. 14, the university for the first time established a scale of minimum and maximum salaries affecting all teaching levels. The September adjustments included improvements in pension and medical benefits, at a cost to the university of approximately $1 million.
Meanwhile, the executive council of the AFL-CIO, meeting in Bal Harbour, Fla., issued a statement calling on the St. John's administration to grant "full and fair hearings" to the 31 professors whose dismissals set off the strike at the Brooklyn and Jamaica campuses. The UFCT is associated with the AFL-CIO through the American Federation of Teachers.
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