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36 NEW BRUNSWICK, N. SUNDAY, APRIL 4, 1965. Artists Irked Over Pop Rating I 11 I '-jTra K' r': ii SI By DORIS E. BROWN The Douglass College Art Department, whose faculty includes leading avant-gardists, has launched two student pop artists, though neither likes the term. Two years ago, it was Miss Kirsten W.

Kraa of Highland Park, whto popped into fame as a graduate student art critique when-she first showed the goggle-eyed pumpkinheads that became her signature. Now k's Miss Ellen S. Enhoffer, who just completed her graduate thesis exhibition of sculpture that presents brightly enameled, novel, simple and outsize versions of the ordinary. Miss Kraa, a graduate student and teaching assistant, who gave her own thesis exhibition in December, refuses to classify her distinctive work as pop, calling it simply "my art." But the 23-year-old artist, who gave her first one-man New York show in March a year ago, studied with Roy Lichtenstein, the pep art leader, when he was on Douglass campus. And earlier in her career, she credited him with teaching her "all that I know." Neither Miss Enhoffer nor Robert M.

Watts, the avant-garde sculptor with whom she studies at Douglass, consider her brightly enameled objects and constructions Pop sculpture. The sculptor, who's been in pop shows through most of his way out work defies definition, rejects the Pop classification as a "too simplified term." The 24-year-old graduate student from Clifton, who is determined on art art career, came to Douglass two years ago to study for her master of fine arts degree. She's a graduate of Montclair State College and had taught art for a year and one-half at Passaic and Bound Brook High Schools. Her exhibition consisted of such objects as black-enameled baby bottles in a white rack, an orange enameled lamp and a blue enameled lantern with variously enameled background pieces surrounding a room with a room, where a giant Monopoly game was being played by birds-eye view cutouts of lifesized players. In one corner of the gallery was a kingsized, checkerlike game, that actually could LO, THE POOR ARTIST Miss Enhoffer has no paper money for players of this king-sized Monopoly game in her exhibit, because, she quipped, "I mailed out the money with my announcements." This was piece de resistance of her exhibition.

be played. "I don't mind if people sit down and play," commented Miss Enhoffer. Pointing to the black-enameled baby bottles in the white-enameled rack, she said, "Most of these don't go very deep into meaning. To me, it's original. I don't like to look at these as baby bottles.

It just becomes a sculpture." Miss Enhoffer purposely uses shiny enamel, mainly in bright basic colors, she explained, "because it's the closest I can get to reality." Miss Enhoffer showed herself an expert handywoman with saw and hammer in the construction of some of the objects for her exhibition and as clever as many a housewife in the repainting of small tables and other pieces of furniture also utilized. So if she ever changes her mind about an art career, her talents won't have gone entirely to waste. But right now, art is the only mote in her eye. "I think at this point, "I'd just like to continue working with an eye on the galleries in New York," declared the promising young Pop sculptor, who'd rather not be called that. POP ART POP GAME James Keith Sonnier, graduate art student from Mamou, and Miss M.

Joan Kowalski, Douglass senior, enjoy checker-like game, featured in thesis ex hibition of Miss Ellen S. Enhoffer in Douglass College Art Gallery. Red-paned window on wall is part of this piece of Pop sculpture. Sculptress Exhibits Works Art Calendar artists. The exhibition includes CLINTON Hunterdon j' 1 iiimmwwiwwww works by Jane Stuart, daughter County Art Center: National of Gilbert Stuart, Sarah Cole, sister of Thomas Cole, and by Print Show opens today with 2 to 5 p.m.

reception and many members of the talented continues through May 16. Peale famiry of Philadelphia CRANFORD Union Junior Among outstanding 19th cen College Campus Center tury painters in the exhibition Fourth annual state show of Bridge Calendar Monday Middlesex Bridge Club: Brunswick Inn, Route 18, East Brunswick. Fractional master point, 8:15 p.m. Tuesday YM-YWCA Bridge Club: Avalon Place, Princeton. Monthly master point.

8 p.m. Wednesday Jamesburg Lions Bridge Club: Jamesburg Library, Jamesburg. Fractional master point, 8:15 p.m. East Brunswick Bridge Club: Jewish Center, Ryders Lane, East Brunswick. Monthly master point, 8:15 p.m.

Thursday YMCA Bridge Club: 65 are Lilly Martin Spencer (1822. the Westfield Art Association 1902), the first woman painter opens next Sunday and con in this country to achieve re tinues through April 18. nown equal to that of her male counterparts, and Mary Cassatt HIGHLAND PARK Gal (1844-1926), a friend and follow lery 100: Phyllis Lifschutz, er of the French Impressionists oil paintings, through Friday, Dorothea Greenbaum, Princeton sculptress, is one of the more than 125 artists featured in the Women Artists of America, 1707-1964 exhibition, that opened at Newark Museum Friday and will continue through May 16. This exhibition of paintings and sculptures includes works from the museum collection and loans from other museums, galleries, private collectors and artists. It is one of the most comprehensive exhibitions ever assembled of work by American women artists.

The almost three-century range of the show allows a view of women's creative achievements from the Colonial times to the present. The show provides a historical survey of American women artists, whose reputations and accomplishments deserve rediscovery and recognition. 18th Century Portraits In painting, the earliest works on view are portraits of the first quarter of the 18th century by Henrietta Johnston, an Irish emigrant who settled in Charleston, and is America's first known professional painter. Most recent is painting done last year by Dorothea Tanning, surrealist. The large sculpture section includes work of the first known professional American sculptor.

Patience Lovell Wright, who, in the latte 18th century, was famous in New York and London as the proprietress of wax museums in which her handiwork was praised for its fidelity to nature. In contrast, a recent sculpture by Lee Bontecou, unconcerned with surface reality, makes a complete artistic statement in terms of today's world. Even within our own time, contrasting roles of women in the art field range between the works of "Grandma" Moses and Marisol, who share varying degrees of primitivism and naivete, yet are as far apart as yesterday and tomorrow. By Female Relatives Much of the finest work seems to have been done by female relatives of professional male who is the most famous woman JERSEY CITY Jersey City Museum: 24th annual artist America has produced By IRVING DESFOR AP Newsfeatures A lady with a background is an asset in photography, Mrs. Phi Fleer of Great Neck, Long Island, discovered.

"I have many backgrounds," she explained, "authentic backgrounds and locations that save photographers the time, trouble and expense of searching for a suitable setting for their pictures. "I can provide a Moorish castle, a Swiss chalet, a Florentine villa, an old stable or a formal garden all within a few miles of New ork City." she pointed out. "It a lot easier for a photographer than to lug his i to Morocco, Switzerland or Italy on a rush assignment. "Authentic atmosphere can be suggested, it doesn't have to overwhelm the viewer. The right camera angle is an important factor in the power of photographic suggestion.

With the right background and the right iwentiees century works on national exhibition of the MhW lit t.SKi w' lr Or; v. ,4, i display follow the development Painters and Sculptors Society of New Jersey opens of modern art movements, beguv ing with early Impressionist tomorrow and continues High Metuchen. Monthly master point, 8 p.m. through April 30. -f hi)' paintings of Cecilia Beaux and the sculpture of Anna Hyatt Huntington and Malvina Hoff Princeton University MADISON Argus Gallery: Vincent A.

Hartgen, Paint man, the latter a pupil of Rodin. Bridge Club: Wilcox Hall, Princeton. Monthly master point, 7:30 p.m. ings of Maine (watercolors), Georgia O'Keefe, the most famous American woman artist of through Thursday. MONTCLAIR Montclair the 20th century, is represented, Art Museum: Eugene Ber as are many women prominent in the main currents of 20th Friday Charles Gcren Bridge School: Brunswick Inn, Route 18, East Brunswick.

Fractional master point, 8:15 p.m. man, stage designs, opens to-day and continues through century art A FLORENTINE VILLA? At firs) glanc these art treasures look like part of an Italian museum but they're in a Greenwich Village home in New York City. Dr. Eugene Morrell, a dentist, collected these antiques on many trips to Europe. His apartment has been photographed many times through "Backgrounds Unlimited." April 25; The Eight, exhibit by eight early 20th Century American painters, opens to Governor Hails Display of Art camera angle you can create the Bayrak Awarded flavor of far-away places without leaving the local area." That is the idea behind "Backgrounds Unlimited," on interest Guggenheim Grant From Congo Turkish-born Tosun Bayrak, ing new occupation developed by Mrs.

Fleer. It started with her background of experience in marketing research and a wide acquaintance among magazine photographers and art directors 15 WINTER-SPRING day and continues through May America Rediscovers, paintings of the 19th Century from the permanent collection, opens today and continues through April 25; The 20th Century, paintings, opens today and continues through May The Force of Light, paintings, through April 11. NEWARK Newark Museum: Women Artists of America, 1707-1964, through May 16; American Quietist Landscapes through May Touch and See (Braille show) through May Paintings of Persia and Mughal India from New Jersey collections through May 23. NEWARK Newark Public Library: 65 Prints for ltG5 through April. DRAMA on one hand and with friends who own estates, unusual homes and artistic treasures on the other hqnd.

art professor at Fairleigh Dickinson' University in Madison, who gave his thesis art exhibition at Douglass College Art Gallery in November, has received a $9,000 uggenheim Fellowship for Creative Painting. Bayrak currently is exhibiting his picture poems at Highgate Gallery in Upper Montclair. He initiated the art curriculum at Fairleigh Dickinson and is the originator and director of the International Artists Seminar at the university. He expects to receive certification in June for his master of fine arts degree from Rutgers University. Casually, at first, she listened ft 1 ill "j- ij; to photographers as they discussed the problems of finding suitable locations.

She volun Another note was from Peter Lind Hayes, entertainer, "Don't forget 'Peter Pebble'," he wrote. "It's a little island in the waters of Long Island Sound. It once housdd a radio transmitter tower and broadcasting station. The tower has crumbled but if any photographer is looking for an island built like Fort Knox, this is it!" "This has turned out to be an exciting, challenging job with a lot of surprises," Mrs. Fleer confided, "Like the time I told an artist friend of my search for an old-fashioned bathtub with iron claw legs.

He took me by the arm and led me into his bathroom. There it was! "By the way," she added, "I'm looking for a room with the flavor of an Oriental den of iniquity beaded curtain and all that goes with it." I was no help but if you can be, I'll gladly pass the word along to Mrs. Fleer. After all, it'll help some photographer somewhere. TODAY AT 3 P.M.! "MACBETH" LAST TIME! Tickets: S3.00 PHONE ORDERS! Box Office open from 1 p.m.

IN REPERTORY teered, as a favor, to arrange for the use of friends' estates for exterior shooting. In time, the photography moved indoors and a fee was offered to compensate the home owners for the trouble involved. NEW BRUNSWICK Little Gallery: African Congo Alt opens with 2 to 5 p.m. reception Still later Mrs. Fleer's re The exhibition of Congo art, that opens today with a 2 to 5 p.m.

reception at the Little Gallery here, has brought Abraham Graber, owner of the new gallery, congratulations from Gov, Richard J. Hughes. "This first Congo art exhibit in the state of New Jersey should prove an important cultural event in our state. The exhibit is of topical importance, since it represents the cultural expression of a newly emerging nation in Africa," Hughes wrote. The governor added: "The opportunity to view the art of other nations is in line with our feelings and interest in the cultural achievement of other people, thereby enriching our own." The exhibit, which will remain on view through May 1, consists of 65 pieces of contemporary, native African art There are two carved ivory pieces, several carved wooden statues, two carved wooden masks, several colorful posters and a number of original oil paintings.

Most of the pictures are unframed, but a few from the opening United States exhibit in New York City last year are framed. The first showing of the Congo art was at Pepsi Cola International House and it also was shown last year at Boston University Museum. today and continues through quests for help involved loca May 1. NEW BRUNSWICK Old tions beyond her immediate circle of friends and called for re THIS WEEK: THURS. EVE.

at 7:30 FRI. EVE. at 8:30 Aristophanes' Bawdy "THE BIRDS" SAT. EVE. at 8:30 Pirandello's puxzlinr "AS YOU DESIRE ME" RESERVATIONS NOW! Queens Gallery: Eskimo stone carvings.

NEW BRUNSWICK Wom search that could no longer be done as a favor. "Backgrounds Unlimited" was the answer: her offer to supply atmosphere for rent, ranging from antique to off-beat, from historical to con en's League of Rutgers Head CONGO ART Above paintings and sculptures at the Gallery here are part of a Congo art show opening today. quarters, 56 College Original art by members of 5TH ANNUAL COIN CONVENTION SPONSORED BV: MIDDLESEX COUNTY COIN CLUB, INC. A (he Si. Cecelia Auditorium Route 27 Oak Tree Road lsel.

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Young Artists To Be Feted As news of the lady from Thurs. Eve. $3.50 to 2.00; Fri. 4 Sat. S3.9S to 2.50 Great Neck's accomplishments es and paintings opened at the spread around, offers from property owners came in also, asking to be added to her list.

One I TO Gallery 100: PRINT SHOW OPENS The opening reception this afternoon of the Ninth National Print Exhibition at Hunterdon County Art Center in Clinton will feature a talk at 3 p.m. on "The Pratt Graphic Center" by Michael Ponce de Leon. The gallery is open from 2 to 5 p.m. today and the exhibition will remain on view through May 16. PHONE ORDERS ALWAYS Rubbings from Thailand through April 18.

letter from England enclosed Two youthful, Shrewsbury artists, Miss Diana Benner and John Mancle, are being honored at an artists' reception from 4 to 6 p.m. today at the Guild of Creative Art in Shrewbury. A show of her paintings and sculptures and his pencil sketch- photographs of an ancient castle PRINCETON McCarter Theater: Princeton Art Asso near the Scottish border and advised' Mrs. Fleer that it was available for her clients. ciation's selected member show through Saturday.

PRINCETON Princeton HAMILTON ACADEMY OF MUSIC University Library: Ancient America: Five Centuries of Discovery (Frank Cather-wood lithographs and pre-Columbian artifacts) through April 15. Direct from the Bach Festival at Carnegie Hall! FIRST TIME IN AMERICA THE WORLD FAMOUS MUNICH BACH CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA KARL RICHTER, CONDUCTOR 847 HAMILTON ST. SOMERSET, N. J. Franklin Twsp.

SHREWSBURY Guild of GEORGE F. SCHULTZ-Director "MUSIC EDUCATION IS OUR PROFESSION" Creative Arts: Oils and scujp-tures by Diana Benner and pencil sketches and paintings gallery yesterday and will continue through the month. Both were art students of Douglas McIIvain of the guild when at Red Bank High School. Mancle now is a junior member of the guild. Vassar Graduate Miss Benner, a 1964 graduate of Vassar College, now lives and works in New York City.

She showed her sculpture in the Centennial Student Exhibit in 1961 and 1964 when in college. She won first and second prizes in 1962, 1963 and 1964 in the outdoor Monmouth Arts Festival and third prize in the 1963 Festival of Fine Arts sponsored by Monmouth College. She is mainly showing figures in beaten lead, alabaster and marble, that are impressionistic in feeling. So are her oils, that she is exhibiting. Mancle, who is a student at the Tyler School of Fine Arts in Temple University, received the Monmouth Arts Foundation Scholarship in 1962 and studied for a year at Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts.

In the same year he was district winner in the annual Roebling-Boehm Scholarship contest. Last fall, his pencil sketch, "Fishing," was shown in an exhibit entitled "Some Negro Ar- by John Mancle, artists' re ception today, 4-6 p.m., show SOLOISTS: INGR1D BJ0NER, HERTHA T0EPPER, ERNST HAEFLIGER, KIETH ENGEM continues through April. UPPER MONTCLAIR Highgate Gallery: Tosun Bayrak, one-man show of RUTGERS UNIVERSITY GYMNASIUM (College Ave. at Morrell New Brunswick) TUESDAY, APRIL 20, AT 8 P.M. picture poems, continues through Tuesday.

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