The Palm Beach Post from West Palm Beach, Florida • Page 130

G4 Palm Beach Post-Times, Sunday, January 71, 1974 (Of A House of Art for Palm Beach lawrence dame night, with Handelman declaring with much conviction "We are here to stay, and we will present only In Lakeview, just over the lake from Palm Beach, visit Harry Steffen's large new gallery for many Norman Rockwells, some of the proprietor's art work, and Mary Ann Hayes at the Flagler Art Center, Acacia and Dixie, West Palm Beach, is showing paintings by members of the prestigious Florida Artists Group. other works of rare quality. Paul Crosthwaite, a sort of modern Wordsworth in poetic realism, offers lovely landscapes and figure pieces in oil at the Barker Gallery. Waldenbooks believes, with no ulterior motives, that any new, large-scale cultural enterprise must be within the bounds of the resort. Many potential patrons will not leave the island in season.

Many more would come to the resort, as audiences, where they wouldn't go anywhere else. it has been suggested that the lawns of the Norton Museum, down to Lake Worth, would be a good locale for a building. I cannot agree, except as a last resort. Parking alone would be impossibly impracticable. Now is the time to launch a drive for Mary Howes' project, on an island where money could be readily available after a bit of explanatory promotion.

This column wants to start the ball rolling anew. If you think Palm Beach can stand more culture, and fewer showy social frivolities, then do what you can. More information will be available shortly. Write us your ideas. The age of elegance has all but ended in Palm Beach.

At James Barker's Gallery in Worth Avenue, we are reminded; of the glorious past varria, 36, a star of the University of Mexico's Aca-demia San Carlo. The macabre trend of Mexican psychology, which makes a festival out of death, is accentuated by strange surrealist touches. Chavarria, who uses brilliant color well, creates such curiosities as a male creature with bottle legs, with a belly consisting of what appears to be a concrete tablet, from which four ghostly hands emerge, and a winged head trapped in a wine decanter. Sleeping beauties, bristle-haired necromancers and other grotesqueries emphasize his imaginative creativity. The artist is shy, stays mostly at home, emerges in public only with one or another of three aunts, ranging in age from 70 to 80.

Sculpture is represented, as well as startling canvases, at the Bryna gallery, with the great young portrayer of bull fighting in bronze, Humberto Peraza, as outstanding. Trinidad Osorio, a fine colorist, and Armando Amaya, who creates "goddesses," are among others on display. Bryna opened notably Friday through a show of portraits and landscapes by an aristocratic turn-of-the-century-and-beyond artist, Raymond P. Rodgers Neilson. He was an aristocrat who drew like an angel, loved the feeling of pigment properly applied had marvelous insight into the characters of subjects like Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Michael Phipps, John Hay Whitney, Winston Churchill, Franklin D.

Roosevelt and many others. This is a beautiful, elegant and historic exhibition. Don't miss it! Mexico at its painting best, so far as younger artists are concerned, has come to town at a smart new gallery, Galeria Bryna at 279 Royal Poinciana Way, next to Sta-ten's pharmacy. Bryna Raskin de Prensky of Mexico City and Acapulco, her Savannah-born cousin, Leah Handelman, and Leah's husband, Harvey, who started a successful gallery in Syracuse, are the proprietors. Bryna has two fine galleries in Mexico City, and one on the Pacific coast.

Sensational is Enrique Cha- do the rest of the job all by herself. What Mary Howes needs right now, she says, is a site for a new home of culture, where art shows, concerts, ballet, theater offerings and lectures on the arts could be presented. On this site, she and her supporters would raise a building that, when active, would draw audiences from many parts. Several sites are being considered right now, even though sufficient funds have not been subscribed. "Give us something we can look at, as a promise of the future, and we'll contribute," one hard-headed multi-millionaire told me recently.

Most agree that a site outside Palm Beach would have one or two strikes against it. Others are fearful that if the house of art could be created in Palm Beach, the town government would be against it on grounds that it would produce traffic jams and an influx of "undesirables." Yet if enough public pressure were applied, the town fathers, and the town mother, who won't even provide toilets for the public beach, and who shy away from new schemes, would be forced to conform. They're supposed to be public servants, aren't they? Not apostles of snobbery. This column has found a site, linked to the history of that Palm Beach that once loomed modestly as an "exclusive" resort. It is, at least, being considered.

The writer Wake up. Palm Beach! Get busy and save what you tarnished cultural traditions. Improvise new ways pf promoting and supporting all the arts and those whc practice them. Subscribe to a small group of arts lovers tha( could grow rapidly, and get -results. Surely some millionaires, and; niultis.

and billionaires, are -able to loosen up on funds thaf would help further the efforts of Mary Howes, a much-loved' and knowledgeable Palfn Beacher, to furnish cultural" attractions to the whole Palml Beach County region, and-domains adjacent. Moreover, Palm Beachers ail pthfrs with more modest iriymesihan have those who fiwre; In the society news oiffih "tp be ready to non-profit, public spiHteij effort with their J)on't overlook the newcom-ejs to Palm Beach, whom stflne regard as barbarians and hopeless social climbers. Afiiong them is a large nu-cifus of persons stemming fim outside Florida. They aif cultivated, eager to see a greater variety of entertainment -apart from that dejigned for empty minds. Snobbism ought not bar them froin.participation.

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