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THE ORIGINAL 
ROMEIKE
PRESS CLIPPINGS
220 W. 19th ST., NEW YORK
Tel. CHelsea 3-8860
Circ (D 607,407) (S 995,182)

This Clipping From
NEW YORK, N.Y.
JOURNAL AMERICAN
APR 13 1941

THE FIFTEEN GALLERY is holding an exhibition of sculpture and drawings by sculptors which makes an interesting showing. The gallery by its proportions, its excellent light and cool pale walls is particularly suited to display sculpture to advantage.

Genevieve Karr Hamlin contributes in her group of figures, "Rhythm in Walnut, Woman," and "Rhythm in Walnut, Man" which are eloquent patterns of bodily rhythms woven into sound designs in striking conceptions. The beautiful textures of the wood untouched by any staining or polish, contribute much to the effectiveness of figures.

Doris Caesar's "Sorrowing Girl" in bronze conveys emotion of bodily gesture without extravagance, rather the emotion seems the outward reflection of an inward state. Her "Girl Thinking" in plaster, has something heroic in its simplified composition.

Isabel Kimball's work is highly diversified--a graceful garden sculpture in bronze, two designs for monumental pieces, already executed and placed, and a design for a gold metal in high relief of exceptionally well considered relations of scale and formal designs.

The anamaliers present excellent works; Elizabeth Poucher's "Ocelot" in wood possesses both mass and solidity and a sense of latent power in its graceful relaxed body. Cornelia Van A. Chapin's "Giant Snail" in stone and "Belgian Hare" in marble are unusual pieces, combining in their decorative designs the structural veracity of the subjects, but intensifying their qualities by exaggerating their forms.

Sibyl Kennedy's plaster figures, elongated in proportions, yet retain for all their exaggerated bodily rhythms, excellent composition. "Congo" is especially successful in its suggestion of vitality. Many engravings, drawings and lithographs included here indicate the serious interest in problems of form that these sculptors possess.