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BILL AND SUZ CAUWPAI MINI 1 THAT MUCH. 1 On he This week's "Applause" cover features a segment from one of Port Huron artist Dorothy Henry's "Bill and Sue" comic strips which she sketched for several years for the London (England) Dally Herald. Before the zanies at the "Applause" desk got hold of the work, the caption read: what are they all doing down at the station?" -something we didn't feel quite ma'de sense pulled out of context. It's the art work that counts, Nifty cartoon strip One of Dorothy Henry's "Bill and Sue" gems Artist Dorothy Henry: looking at two fences and loving 'em iiii.j,,iiiii,,, ''J fs '-H I kv tk I I 1 For Dorothy Henry of 3160 East Village Lane, art is art is art is art and then And the reason for this is simple: she deals in fne art and in commercial (advertising) art, and she finds no conflict in the two "Fine art and commercial art are becoming more closely related as increasingly refined printing methods make it possible to reproduce almost any type of art being done today," she says. "Both fields offer unlimited opportunity for personal expression and creativity; and a pleasing page design and a painting both rely on the same basic artistic-qualities: balance of line, mass, shape, and color all well-composed within a two-dimensional space." That's a lot to take in even a couple of breaths, but that's the way it is for Mrs.

Henry that is why art is art is art is art. Indeed, she sits on both sides of the fence and loves" it. A professional advertising artist with more than 25 years of experience and a painter in watercolor, acrylic, and pen and ink for the past 15 years or so, Mrs. Henry is currently offering the best of both of her worlds fine art and commercial art in a one-man show at the Museum of Arts and History's basement gallery (established for members of the Blue Water Art Club. "From as far back as I can remember, I have had a consuming interest in sketching and painting," says Mrs, Henry.

"Working with acrylic, water-color, and pen and ink gives me the greatest excitement because of the rapidity and directness with which I can record an idea. And the subjects I find most suggestible are likely to be the moods in nature memorable moments of light and shadows, changes in the weather, that kind of thing." Some of her' most interesting work, however and that which draws the most comment from gallery viewers -is her commercial work (advertising lay-outs and designs for various businesses) and her cartoon characters. The cartoons are an interesting story in themselves. While residing ia London, England, for several years in the 1950s, she picked up a side job helping with the sketching of characters for a cartoon strip entitled "Bill and Sue" (which was owned by the London Daily Herald). The strip's principal artist became involvediir a knockabout (as they say In jolly old" Britain) with the newspaper's editors, however-, and Mrs.

Henry assumed full responsibility for the -characters and gag ideas. "I had a lot of fun with the cartoon strip," she says. "The actual art work wasn't bad, either it was the She also reports that she picked up most, of ideas for the situations penned into the script from her experiences with her 6wn two children. A past president of the Blue Water Art Club and a member of the art committee for the museum, Mrs. Henry has studied art and design at the Art Students' League in New York, the Society of Arts and Crafts in Detroit, and at Wayne State University, Cass Tech, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Society of Illustrators, and four years of private study in Europe.

A winner of numerous awards in national, state, and local competitions and exhibitions, Mrs. Henry has displayed her art work at galleries in mingham, Detroit, Grosse Pointe, Lansing, Orlando and at Michigan State University. Mrs. Henry' works of fine art also' hang in numerous private collections both in' the area and around the The artist has also been employed by some of the leading advertising agencies, publishers, and retail firms around the world, including spots in London (England), New York City, Detroit, Birmingham, San Francisco, and in Port Huron (she is currently engaged as an illustrator and lay-out de- signer for Mary Maxim. "To be a really fine artist, you must study the great and permanent principals of drawing," she says.

"These include color, composition, values, line texture, mood you have to learn these to be a master of media and technique, i "But a painting should also leave something to imaginattorTof the viewer," she says. "That part of it is most Mrs. Henry's work will be on display at the museum basement gallery, 1)15 Sixth Street, through Oct. 15 and may be viewed Wednesday through Sunday from 1 until 4:30 p.m. Take five Artist Dorothy Henry takes a break from her painting in the basernent gallery at the Port Huron Museum of Arts and History TKE INN ON THE RIVER bftt.

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11 FISH 1.29 French Fries, Slaw Roll Butter Seafood Platter for Two 20 From near distant waters an assortment of scallops, shrimp, steam clams, pickerel, king crab and lobster. Choice of soup or juice, salad, potatoes, Mini-Breod, Coffee or Tea. May we suggest delicious "Hot Cappuccino" a continental tradition for after dinner and all warm friendly occasions. it's inside us 2nd Sports 12 Television Pages 8, 17 IS Travel Pages 26-23 Tuesday Page 11 TV Movies Page 12 Wednesday Page If cDobGibbs Quarto Calendar Paget Cover Page? lst Friday 16 Local Pages 2-6 Page 16 Music Page 7 Saturday Pace 18 1 1-9 featuring Joyce Chicone every rriaay botur- aay rsignr in ine Kivsr lounge. OCTOBER 5, 1975 PAGE TWO Times herald.