PART HI '5
AND ARTISTS
EJNAR HANSEN—His painting, "Mexican Still Life," just won two awards in Pasadena Society of Artists' annual exhibit, is now seen in his one-man show at Biltmore.
Floral Ait Praised
Ejnar Hansen began as a flower painter in his native Denmark and flowers make the
strongest impression in his current exhibition at the Biltmore
Art Gallery until April 24.
The flower canvases are at
once the most informal and the
most, charming things on view.
In these Hansen seems to keep
his very considerable knowledge
of form and color in the background and to let himself go as
a painter. The results are some
of the best flower pieces ever ■
done here. They are rich in color, free in treatment and the
brush work matches the bold
forms but almost shrinkingly
sensitive substance of flowers.
Of his landscapes I liked best
"Eaton, Canyon."' a water color
With touches of opaque.
Hansen's painterly scholarship
is shown in the single large figure canvas, "Model Resting."
Note the fine drawing and modeling and the way in which he
combines color, drawing and texture 10 rich effect. The two still
lifes of fruit and vegetables further exhibit his ability to carry
a complex design through to rich
conclusions. And the small head
of' a girl, done in water color, is
something one remembers long
after leaving the gallery.
A. M.
Painter of horses
Will Lecture Today
Howard Smith, described by
Dean Rcscoe Shrader of Otis Art
Institute as "the best-known
American painter of horses," will
lecture at t h e institute at 11
a.m. today and the public is invited to hear him. He is to talk
on "Experiences in Painting
Man's Best Friend, the Horse,"
The Biltmore salon is holding an
exhibition of Smith's work.
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HOLMES WORK SHOWN
The Olis Art Institute has an
exhibit of paintings by Ralph
Holmes. The subjects are western landscape in its grander aspects, given a treatment which
is mural in tone and composition
and painted with appreciation of
beauty in nature. Besides teaching at Otis, Holmes is an active
field director for Art in National
Defense, Inc.
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STUDENT CARRIES ON
Henry Fukuhara, former art student at Otis Art Institute now living in Manzanar, has refused to let confinement depress his spirit as an artist. He is making breezy water colors of the camp and its activities.
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