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Picasso featured in Lawson collection at McNay The McNay Art Institute, starting this Sunday will present a remarkable exhibition of graphic art selected from (he private collection of Mrs. Geraldine Lawson of San Antonio, Affording to Jotm Leepcr, director, the museum is particularly fortunate to show the group of drypoinls and t'lcliings from the "Salliinbanqucs" series wliich'l'icasso did in IIHI5. Included in Die group is Iiis most important etching, "The rrugnl of the previous year. Picasso did a series of some 16 etchings which epitomize his work of 1905. Only a few of each were printed by Delatre and signed by the artist.

Late in 1913 Edouard Vollard aciiuircd the plates, and Ihey were printed in a small edition. They are by far the best known and most widely reproduced of all Picasso's graphic work. The prints portray circus people and off stage, as well as legendary subject matter, such as Salome. Classically in drawing, the prints parallel the canvases of Picassn's "liluc Later lithographs of Picasso arc also iiii Imlcd in the Lawson collection. Two exceedingly rare color woodcuts by Paul Gauguin liBve been lent by Mrs.

Lawson to the present collection, as well as examples of the monumental color prints by Georges Rouault. This rare group of master prints will remain on exhibition throughout November. Modern Sculpture Vasarely's "Vega 4 Cercles" is included in the McNay Art Institute's Collectors' Gallery which opens this Sunday. Art objects in all styles and widest price range sale during the show. be on Filmmaking, photo classes scheduled Courses in filmmaking and photography will be offered by the Southwest Craft Center, Old Ursuline Academy, beginning this week.

Filmmaking classes will be held Mondays and Wednesdays 9 a.m. till noon and photography classes are scheduled Tuesdays and Thursdays 9 a.m. fill noon. Tom Karges, who worked in Peru on documentaries after having graduated with a filmmaking and photography degree from San Francisco State College, will be the in- slrucloi-. He is presently a news cameraman with KENS-TV.

For more information call 224-1347, or come in person to the Southwest Craft Center Creative Art School, Old Ursuline Academy, Augusta St. Durrant works shown ALPINE Paintings, drawings, and sculptures by G.D. Durrant will be on exhibit throughout November in the Sul Ross State University Art Gallery, according to Miriam A. Lowrance, art department chairman. Outdoor class Carl Embrey (right) teaches new outdoor watercolov and painting class at San Antonio Art Institute each Thursday, whh new class starting Nov.

11, for eight weeks. Instruction applies to any level of ability and is directed to students' potential, attitude and technique when working directly from environment. Witte exhibition to feature craftsmen of Southeastern U.S. Craftsmen from the Southeastern region of the United Stales will be featured in an exhibition opening Sunday, Nov. at the Witte Memorial Museum.

The exhibition has been organized by Ted Potter, director of The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Winslon-Salem, N.C. On display will be over 100 individual pieces including media of ceramics, wood, fibers, mctalwork and jewelry, and glass, by 20 craftsmen. The Southeastern Crafts Exhibition has been scheduled to coincide with the Christmas gift-buying season and all works will be available for purchase. The display will be shown on the main floor of the Witte Memorial Museum adjacent to the Witte's own gift shop which is bulging at this time with Christmas ideas. Martha UUcrhack, Curator of Art at the Wille Museums, is preparing the catalogue on the a exhibition.

Among the unique and original pieces to be seen are textile wall-hanging pieces and ceramic wall plaques; a chandelier of ceramic and chain; caramic bowls, goblets boxes and sculptural forms; blown glass wilch balls and blown glass in artistic color combinations. The jewelry pieces reflect exciting originality with the craftsmen working with such a mixtures of materials as polished pieces of goat horns imbedded into silver, cfiony wood amlsilvcr, or turtle shells inset intosilvcr, rare designs of solid gold necklaces anrt cocktail rings of solid silver or gold with colorful jewels or stones. Continuing on display in the Friedricli Galleries of the Witte Memorial Museum is the first major exhibition of Texas pottery with 250 pieces of Meyer stoneware, organized by Georgeanna Greer, Art winners named at New Braunfels NEW BRAUNFELS Winners have been selected in the judged section of the New Braunfels Art League's Fall Art Show and Sale, which is drawing large crowds throughout the Wurstfest. Artists represent a large area of South Central Texas including Lockhart, San Antonio, Seguin, Marion, Del Valle Spring Branch, Austin, Llano, Wetmore, Universal City, Fredericksburg, San Marcos, Kingsbury and Laredo. Well-known San Antonio artists Jacqueline Von Honts, Ivan McDougal and Clay McGaughy were named winners in five categories.

Best of Show, which carried $25 in prize money from the New Braunfels Art League, was given to Gilbert Duran of San Antonio. Welded Steel Sculptural work by Margaret Pace is among the exhibits in her current ihow at the Odyssey Galleries. Judges' Special (first runner-up) was won by Jesus Amado Campos of New Braunfels. Other first award winners were Gilbert Duran, watercolor; Mrs. Patricia Le Stourgeon, portrait; Jesus Campos, abstract and nonobjective; Mrs.

Lillian Fowler, landscape; and Mrs. C.S. (Roxie) Canon, still life. Other winners included Amando Bill Ruppel, Kitty Johnson, Dorothy Steussy, Julia Posey, Beverly Beeman, Joyce Tally and Lucille Miller. The public is invited to visit the Fall Art Show and Sale and view the fine art work on exhibit this Sunday from noon to p.m.

Admission is free. Three-man show The Broken Spur Gallery, 8301 Speedway Drive, will be fealuringa three-man show for leading contemporary Texas landscape artist Manuel Garza, superb Western bronze sculptor Juan Dell, and G. Von Trier, who is well known throughout the United States and Canada for his rural American scenes. The show will open with a champagne preview Thursday from 7 to 10:30 p.m. The public is invited.

Pleasanton artist to exhibit paintings Frances Brite of Pleasanlon will show her oil paintings this Sunday, from 2 to 5 p.m. at Demon's Restaurant, 2717 Roosevelt Ave. in San Antonio. Mrs. Brite is a charter member of the Brush Country Art club of Atascosa county and a member of the San Antonio Art League.

She is the wife of Dist. A J. Taylor Brite and the mother of four children. Express-News Sunday One Nov. 7, 1971 Page 13.