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GROUP EXHIBITIONS OF ART DISPLAYED
Works of Federal Project Painters at Unit's Gallery Have Varied Interest
SCULPTURE PUT ON VIEW
Municipal Show at Temporary Galleries Also Offers Oils and Water-Colors
By EDWARD ALDEN JEWELL
A couple of new group exhibitions, one Federal, the other municipal, got under way yesterday afternoon.  At the Federal Art Project Gallery, 7 East Thirty-eighth Street, may be seen through March 23 the third exhibition of work by artists of the WPA easel painting department, while in the Temporary Galleries of the Municipal Art Committee, 62 West Fifty-third Street, the nineteenth exhibition in the series that began when the galleries were founded, more than a year ago, will be current until March 14.
On the first floor of the municipal show, sculpture has been arranged.  Most of this work is decorative and especially suitable for use in gardens.  Those contributing examples are Duane Champlain, Cornelia Van A. Chapin (whose enormous "Turtle" is carved in volcanic rock), Mabel Conkling, Cornelia Cresson, Joseph C. Fleri, Karl H. Gruppe, Charles Andrew Hafner, Genevieve Karr Hamlin, Leo Lentilli, with his rococo "Bathers" and "Ala Baba Fountain"; Pietro Montana, Waldine Tauch, Frederic Allen Williams and Ellen Winters.
On the floor above we find the season's second "repeat" group, composed of work in oil by the following artists:  Jessie Ansbacher, Joseph Biel, Florence Frandkin, Roy Gordon, Lena Gurr, Hermine E. Kleinert, Rebecca Mahler, Joseph Margulies, Herman Oxhandler and Nicholas Salamon.  These paintings - figure sugjects, landscapes, and still-life - range from academic to "primitive."
Water-colors hung on the third floor, represent for the most part "commericial" artists and architects, some of whom stick more or less to the fields with which they are customarily identified, while others leap the fence and roam.  Participants in this group are William Baltz, Gladys Bergh Bates, De Los Blackmar, Elisabeth Coit, Jouko J. Hakola, Tyyne Hakola, Wilbur Johanson, H. Nelson Kent, Thomas F. Lube, Joseph P. Reichart, Clifford Rhys, Thomas Williams and Florence Dunn Wilmer.
Galleries IV and V on the fourth floor are occupied by younger members of the National Arts Club, represented in the main by decorative oils.  The roster includes Jacqueline Creamer, Frank Gervasi, L.      Maitland Graves,

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THREE VARIED SOLO DISPLAYS
William Starkweather Is at the Fifteen Gallery.
RALPH ROWNTREE AT ARDEN
His Sensitive Pastels on View - Baron Bucovich's Photographs.

The work which William Starkweather is showing at the Fifteen Gallery (until March 6, inclusive), takes on rather a retrospective character.  The large and imposing "Christians and Pagans," with saints of the church and pagan deities posed against a background of New York's downtown towers, was shown at the Brooklyn Museum several seasons ago.  "The Mantelpiece," in which the artist has introduced a portrait of himself shown in the overhanging mirror, has also done duty before, as have several of the Grand Manan landscapes.  All these, particularly the figure subjects, reveal a sound sense of construction and that mastery of form to be expected from a pupil of Collin, Courtois and Sorolla, even if they are inclined to leave one a trifle cold.
Among the new things, a preoccupation with the morbid is evident - in the bleak "Funeral in New England" and in the familiar "Fantasy on the Van Gogh Theme."  These will doubtless make an appeal to the similarly inclined.  There is nothing of this, however, in the capably if somewhat dryly painted "Nude," or in that solidly realized yet freely handled "Old Brick Boat, Staten Island" or in "My Niece Elizabeth in White."  This last, in its simplicity and tender directness of treatment, warms into something like real feeling.
Scattered around the walls are several small canvases and one water color of brother artists or pupils engaged in painting out-of-doors.  Some of them at least are not exactly recent works, but most have a touch of the holiday spirit and all have the freshness and spontaneity of work done hurriedly from life, out in the open, under the sun.
And speaking of spontaneity, it is to be regretted that Mr. Startweather did not exhibit more of his water colors.  There is something in the hurried limitations of this medium - when kept fresh and direct and sparkling - that seems to act as a spur with him and makes him, when at this best, one of our outstanding practitioners of the aquarellist's art.
In the current group show by members of the Fifteen circle, among the new things are a sturdily modeled "Bear Cub," done directly from the life in volcanic stone by Cornelia Van A. Chapin, two of Genevieve K. Hamlin's small dog pieces in bronze and terra cotta, Herbert T. Tschudy's water color "Kansas," the "Swans," in Beulah Stevenson's personally stylized manner, Isabel Whitney's "Horse Chestnut" and "The Pueblo" of Morgan Padelford.

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N.Y. Post
Feb 27 1937

CLIMB ONE FLIGHT AT THE MUNICIPAL
Best of Its Four  New Group Shows Is Upstairs
Climb one flight at the Municipal Art Gallery for the best of its four new group shows.  It includes Lena Gurr's breezy, clean-cut canvas of a last minute rush for an excursion boat, Joseph Biel's richly colored well-composed study of a performing clown, Rebecca Mahler's dense flowerpiece, Roy Gordon's temperate landscapes and Nicholas Salamon's work, much influenced by Cezanne.
Among participants in the ground-floor sculpture show are Cornelia Van A. Chapin, Leo Lentelli, Genevieve Karr Hamlin and Cornelia Cresson, whose small reclining nude is an outstanding figure.
For personal savor in the third-floor water color show we much single out Florence Dunn Wilmer's "Rainy Afternoon," H. Nelson Kent's little sketches and Joseph P. Reichart's work.  Jacqueline Creamer's city views stand out for their swing and color in a fourth show by young painters.