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evolves massive shapes out of hard-wood surfaces, polishing certain areas, keeping others in their natural state even as to the bark. [$45-$2000; G.T.M.] Last month this artist exhibited [Village Art Center] a group of aquatints, drypoints, linoleum cuts and graphics in his own technique of brass engraving. Working with a bold, sure line, figures suggesting lyrical symbols - including winged horses and tiny flying fish - are incorporated into his compositions. Prices unquoted. R.G. Manina [Hugo], daughter of the late neo-Romantic Viennese painter, Victor Tischler, recently assembled a group of delicate surrealist images in pen-and-ink and watercolor for her first New York show. Illustrating her own poems describing intimate states of soul, these autobiographical allegories invariably portray a young girl in precarious dreamlike situations, imprisoned behind the threads of a half-woven curtain, glimpsed through the panes of revolving doors, balancing on a tightrope stretching to infinity or on the edge of long flights of stairs. $125-$250. H.L.F. Robert Rauschenberg [Parsons; May 14-June 11, who studied at Black Mountain College and the Art Students League, in his first one man show offers large-scale, usually white-grounded canvases naïvely inscribed with a wavering and whimsical geometry. On vast and often heavily painted expanses, a wispy calligraphy is sometimes added to thin abstract patterns and in other instances collage is introduced, either to provide textural effects - as in the picture whose background is made entirely of road maps - or to suggest a very tenuous associational content. Prices unquoted. D.S. "Art to Live With" [New Age; to May 26] offered a number of modest paintings, prints and cermaics, including Maurice Becker's Three Horses in a cindery impasto built up in relief like an old-fashioned postcard; a watercolor-ink drawing by Minna Citron, an example of her earlier style; Helen Frank's Clown; and Zoltan Hecht's Flower Arrangement in a manner recalling Bohemian present work. $5-$400. L.C. Erna Weill [Carlebach; May 14-28] is concerned with the relationship of two figures, either in conflict like Jacob's Flight with the Angels, a writhing struggle of blockily defined limbs in terra cotta, or strained together in attitudes of affection. This second one man show for the German-trained sculptress and ceramicist also includes an impressive, bulky Ba'al Shem - a simplified, stylized, marble head of the great Hebrew mystic - and several small religious ceremonial objects in metal. $40-$500. L.C. Jane Canfield [American-British; May 1-18], who used to exhibit under her maiden name, Jane Sage White, was early attracted to the tradition of Augustus Saint-Gaudens through her teachers, Francis Grimes, James Earle Fraser and Mahonri Young. This first one man show of her sculpture offers several sensitive figures, notably a marble Torso. Her small animals, like the snuggly-fitting marble and onyx Ducks and the andirons of Poodles, which she has sanded and polished, prefering the lustre of the metal to any patina, are perhaps more personal expressions. Prices unquoted. L.C. Prizewinners [Village Art Center] Ethel Parsons Paullin, Conwell Savage and Margot Steigman received second, third and fourth awards respectively in the Center's recent graphic arts contest, and were given this joint show. The prints mainly are of religious and social themes in black and white, with an avoidance of abstraction. Paullin, one-time mural painter, includes attractive, sentimental versions of Consider the Lilies, The Vine and the Branches, etc., and some small dry-points of lightly treated dancers. Savage's Adoration of the Magi is a lithograph which distributes masses effectively, and heightens the effect with unadorned figures in white. Turning to the more disturbing, Steigman does strong lithographs of heads and group studies of depraved persons and achieves an effect of disquiet best in the illustrative Time to Go Home. Prices unquoted. R.G. Other one man shows noted around town this month include: Angele Kehyan [Eggleston; to May 12] makes her debut with flower still-lifes and portraits of women and children [$125-$600] G.T.M. . . Jeanette Kilham [Hacker; to May 12], a student of Léger, has a first showing of tree, rock and bird motifs in a semi-abstract style [$150-$450] B.H. . . Lunda Hoyle [Barbizon; to May 15], a young Californian who studied with Robert Brackman at the Art Students League, has her first show with competent, conservative portraits and still-life arrangements [prices unquoted] L.C. . . Winslow Wilson [Associated American; May 23-June 9] makes his debut with naturalistic seascapes [$500-$1,500] L.C. . . Saul Raskin [Grand Central; May 15-25] shows watercolors of Jewish figure subjects, also marines with boats, sea gulls, surf and rocks at Block Island [$75-$250] G.T.M. . . Joel Kaplan [Lenox; to May 5], advertising executive, makes his New York bow with recordings of Fire Island bungalows and beaches, city streets and fishing streams [$150-$300] G.T.M. . . Joel Moses [Eggleston; May 7-19] makes a first appearance with abstract and semi-abstract watercolors based on land- and cityscapes [$25-$150] G.T.M. . . Charlotte Ross [Salpeter; May 7-26] shows paintings of children in D.P. camps, lost in Roman ruins and in New England fairs, in her first New York show [$100-$600] G.T.M. . . Irina Tolford [Argent; to May 12], a Rockport, Mass. painter, is showing a naturalistic portraits, figure compositions and harbor scenes in watercolor, pastel and oil in her New York debut [$15-$600] B.H. . . Alphonse J. Shelton [Grand Central] popular marine painter, recently showed more of his familiar canvases of churning surf off the Maine coast. [$200-$450] G.T.M. FRENCH & CO., INC. ESTABLISHED 1840 ANTIQUAIRES FURNITURE TAPESTRIES PAINTINGS PANELLED ROOMS & DECORATIONS 210 EAST 57th STREET, NEW YORK HOWARD YOUNG GALLERIES Old and Modern PAINTINGS 1E.57thSt., New York City THE WORLD'S LARGEST SELLING PALETTE AVAILABLE AT YOUR FAVORITE ART SUPPLY STORE
