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6-EN CALENDAR -j The Siegrie sfs-Oaklands EASTtAY ART of First Arts the Family By MIRIAM DUNCAN CROSS Tribune Art Critic BERKELEY GALLERY, WM Sw Ptte-lo: OripMcs tff ttw GUry Greupi Kulpftw by Retort McCten (to AYf. 1-5 p.m.). CALIFORNIA COLLEGE Of ARTS AND CRAFTS, trmtwvr CeUtgtl Jtu- cnt Work (August, Stptwntari MM- dY-Frkly, I i.m.-5 p.m.). JAMES D. KENNEDY MEMORIAL ART CENTER, Cslkg of ttw Hoty N(mt, 3500 Mountain "GnU," Wh grapto by Abl Pnn mwiacs.

tccr-tiont by Louts Jnktnt (t Aug. 7 Monday. Wtdnttdty. Friday, 1-4 p.m.) Sunday, 1-5 p.m.). KAISER CENTER: Stlactlent from ma naw permanent collection of ttw Cam fornla Collag of Art and Cratti (Aug.

l-Sept. I). MEZZANINE GALLERY, Gray Shop! Palntlngi by Gloria Brown (August). RESIDENT ART GALLERY, 151 Mt. Diablo Lafayattst Palntlngi by Joseph Ullery (to Aug.

15; Monday-Saturday, I a.m.-7 p.m.). RICHMOND ART GALLERY, Clvle Can. ter: Geoffrey Bowman, paintings; John McCracken, paintings, graphics; Gwen Stone, collages; Martial Westburg, sculpture (to Aug. Monday-Friday, a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Monday-Thrusday, p.m.; Sunday, 2-5 p.m.). U.C.

ART GALLERY, East of Settler Gate: Sculpture and Graphics by U.C. Artists (August; daily, 12-4 p.m.). U.C. LOWIE MUSEUM. Kroeber Hell; "Man the Inventor" (to Nov.

I); Modern Mexican Arts and Crafts (August); (Tuesday-Sundey, 1-5 p.m.). U.C. WORTH RYDER GALLERY, Kroeber Hall: Reproductions of combine paintings by Ruaschenberg (to Sept. II; Tuesday-Friday, 1-4 p.m.). SAN FRANCISCO ARTISTS COOPERATIVE, 1254 Union! 2 Paintings by Isabel Lockwood, Robert Empie (August; Monday-Thursday, 12-4 p.m.; Friday-Sunday, to 9 p.m.).

CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 2090 Jackson: "Politics In California, 1150-115" (to Aug. 29; Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.). CALIFORNIA PALACE OF THE LEGION OF HONOR. Lincoln Park: American Paintings of the Itth Century; paintings by Walter Kuhlmen (to Aug. 14).

Achenbach Foundation: Memorial exhibit of woodcuts by Ko-shlro Onchl (to Sept. 20); (daily, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.). GUMP'S GALLERY, 25oVost: "Family Album," oils by Robert Harvey (Aug, M. H. DE -YOUNG MUSEUM, Golden Gate Park: Finlayson collection of Chinese painting (Aug.

4-Sept. 3); weaving by Trude Guermonprez; enamels by June Schwarcz (Aug. 4-23); Faberge-Goldsmlth to the Russian Imperial Court, leweled objects (Aug. 10-Sept. 27); (daily, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.).

S.F. ART INSTITUTE, MO Chestnut: New works by SFAI members (to Aug. FrMey-Sunday, 12-4 p.m.). S.F. MUSEUM OF ART, McAllister and Van Ness: "Americans, '43" (to Aug.

f); Arts of S.F. (to Aug. 9) photos by Gordon Bennett (to Aug. 14); drawings by Keith Boyle, Wm. H.

Brown, Deborah Remington, Julius Wassersteht (to Sept. 4); memorial exhibit of the Jewelry of Margaret De Patta (to Aug. 23); (Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday, to 5 p.m.; Sunday, l-S p.m.). TRIANGLE GALLERY, U27 Polk: Paint-' ings by Louis Siegriest, Edna Stoddart, Masando Klto, Jack Carrlgg (to Aug. dally except Monday, 12-4 p.m.).

I If I ft "ST (I (i-H i is i plastic glue to endure through rain and time. Among his recent prizes was the '63 Ford Foundation Purchase Award at the important University of Illinois Biennial. At 18 Lundy left for three years in the South Pacific with the Sea Bees, an experience he which must have slowed MacArthur's return. His outfit, first on one of the Gilbert Islands and then on Guam, was known far and wide as "Chief and his 40 thieves." Unloading ships, they managed to "requisition" such desirable items as "round" potatoes, eggs in the shell and whiskey intended for officers. With the commissary sugar (all of it) they made "white lightning" in a still improvised under direction of a Kentucky mountaineer.

In the Gilberts, Lundy worked in the sign shop with a Sea Bee he recalls with displeasure. This dastardly fellow obtained commissions for Lundy to paint nudes and palm trees on sea chests and cartoons on bombers and then kept the whisky payment for himself. On Guam, Lundy continued his "art" engraving more girls and palms on souvenir paper knives made from brass shells. His take was tl each on the $10 knives. Lundy's rugged war over, he returned to San Diego and hitch-hiked home.

Standing on the corner of Telegraph and MacArthur on a stormy night, a car stopped to pick him up. When he got in out of the pouring rain, the driver was amazed to hear him say "Hello, Dad." Lundy studied for four years at the California College of Arts and Crafts. From the beginning his painting has been definitely his own to be identified at a glance. Lundy numbers 159 exhibits including the Sao Paulo Bienale and the Carnegie International, 10 one-man shows and 44 awards. His work is 3h such public collections as the Library of Congress and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Edna's Enchanting World Edna Stoddart's impressive background of study includes Mills, CCAC, California School of Fine Arts under Varda, Park and Rbthko, and U.C. with Wessels and Ruvolo. Since her first showings more than 20 years ago with San Francisco Women Artists, California Watercolor Society and San Francisco Art Association, she has exhibited widely and continuously, winning numerous All her art instruction resulted in a sophisticated technique but swerved her not from the naive images of her pixy imagination. Her birds and animals, inhabiting a jewel-' like enchanted' land, have the essential attitudes of their species but are anthropomorphic, for there is a part of Edna's sensitive self in every creature be it "Pussy Cat Angel" afloat on pink gossamer wings or the glittering green "Bewildered Frog." Since everyone was doing it, Lundy encouraged his Gerry, who looks young enough to be a bride, to paint. Hesitant to compete, she did begin last year to produce richly textured abstract landscapes which are neither like Lundy's nor Lou's but her very own and of such quality that she was invited to be the fourth member of the '63 "Siegriest Family Exhibit" at the Da Silva Gallery in Santa Barbara where Edna had a solo show this year.

Triumphing over the old hands, Gerry sold six works. Bearing little but his great strength, brass knuckles and his stepfather's name "Siegriest," an 18-year-old youth left Virginia late in the last century to work his way West on the construction of the new railroad. Pre-requisite for landing a job was to throw the biggest, toughest member of the labor gang, a feat the young man accomplished without breathing heavily. "I threw the so and so clear over a wall." Arriving by this rugged route in California, be worked in the hot wheat fields of Fresno until the rattlesnakes hoisted on his pitch fork began to bother him. He left for San Francisco and fell in with one "Professor" Bartholomew who owned a troupe of performing horses.

Apparently Siegriest had acquired horse knowledge in Virginia (and horse sense on the way west) because he was hired to tend the horses and went along with them and the professor on a junket to Mexico. On return he married an Oakland girl whose parents were among Italian settlers in the Temescal District and owned a farm on which Siegriest built a house in 1899. He settled down to drive the horse car from Oakland to Berkeley (Earl Warren, then a U.C. student, was one of his passengers), and lived vigorously to the age of 92. What an unlikely progenitor of artists! Oakland's most distinguished painters, Louis and Lundy Siegriest, are his son and grandson.

The Siegriest Family The remarkable Siegriest family now comprises four artists, all born in Oakland. Louis and his delightful second wife, Edna Stoddart, long a well-known painter and daughter of Emil Lehnhardt of the once famous ice cream parlor, live in the old Siegriest house on Miles now almost obscured by bushes and redwood trees. where the witches live," Edna overheard a child say and promptly painted a series of witches.) Across the street in another Victorian house live Lundy, his pretty, vivacious wife of 17 years, Gerry, who is the daughter of Oaklanders, the poodle Jock and Kitty Kat. Louis and Lundy paint in their backyards. Gerry, a newcomer to painting (except for one work Kuniyoshi gave an honorable mention in the '54 State Fair) paints outside, toor-Edna climbs a precarious stairway to paint in the tank house of the old windmill.

Both houses are adorned with art work their own, their friends' and Mexican artifacts. The cellars are jammed with more. Fondling his father's brass knuckles, Louis recalled that he drew from the time he can remember, won a prize for a "Mutt and Jeff" cartoon contest at the age of 14, and at the suggestion of his teacher, who saw little future for him as a scholar, left University High to attend the California School of Arts and Crafts (now CCAC). It was the laundry-man who introduced him to artists on his route, Auguste Gay and Seldon Gile. "It was the first time I had been in an artist's studio.

It knocked me for a loop!" Lou painted with them, imitating their impressionist style. Later they founded the Society of Six with Maurice Logan, who lived in a tent; William Clapp, who became director of the Oakland Art Gallery, and Van Eirchman, with Lou the youngest member. The "Six" exhibited at the Oakland Art Gallery, the San Francisco Gallery Beatrice Judd Ryan owned before she became director of the Rotunda Gallery, and in Albuquerque and Salt Lake City (through convenient arrangements with a Southern Pacific agent). Lundy's Rugged War Lou left CSAC to study at San Francisco's Mark Hopkins Institute under New York artist Frank Van Sloun who later started his own school which Lou attended until it was disbanded at the advent of World War I. At 17 Lou enlisted, the day before the Armistice.

"What a shock! We were all set to go the Italian kids with a gallon of wine apiece." For the next three years he worked as an apprentice with Maynard Dixon, later famed for his paintings of the Southwest, doing posters for Foster and Kleiser. Thereafter until the depression brought him home, he was with ad agencies in Dallas, Chicago, Milwaukee and Seattle, all the time painting on his own and exhibiting with the "Six." The next five years painting in Virginia City (Lou survived selling sketches to tourists) resulted in his first important recognition for the expressive, richly painted works of a place he has returned to again and again. Trips to Mexico changed the themes but not the mysterious quality of the landscapes. A wonderful series of abstract figures in Virginia City settings was shown at the de Young in a duo show with Lundy. "Miner Going to Church," named on the spur of the moment because the figure had a beard and there was a church in the background, was yanked out of the show on complaint of an irate citizen, who took exception to the miner's lack of clothes.

With the resulting publicity Lou fled to Virginia City. As time has passed, bringing him Innumerable shows and awards, Lou has gone from strength to strength. His painting has become more powerful and more and more abstract, indigenous expressions of the land its very texture and color realized with the actual earth he collects around Virginia City. These muted, subtle works are executed flat on a masonite panel in color mixed with OAKUND'S FIRST FAMILY OF THE ARTS Edna, Louis, Lundy and Gerry New Art Shows KAISER CENTER: Jury selections from the California College of Arts and Craft's new permanent collection assembled from works donated for "Alumni Project '64." Opens Aug. 8.

MEZZANINE GALLERY, Gray Shop: Personally creative figurative abstractions by prize-winning Orinda painter Gloria Brown represented in last month's Biennal In-(' vitational de Vichy, France. August. RICHMOND ART CENTER: Avant-garde young painters. John McCracken (working for MFA at CCAC), hard-edge, geometric symbols; Carole Peel (recent MA, U.C.), paintings influenced by Rauschen-berg, Rivers, Johns; Geoffrey Bowman (MA, San Francisco State; SFAI graduate work), nationally-known painter and print-maker. WORTH RYDER GALLERY, Kroeber Hall, U.C.: "Dante's Inferno," color reproductions of combine paintings by Robert Rauschenberg illustrating Dante's ideas in modern terms.

ARTISTS COOPERATIVE, 2224 Union, San Francisco: "San Francisco and California Scenes," representational paintings by Isabel Lockwood of Oakland (member of Alameda Art Association, Oakland Art Association, Artists Guild, Contemporary Arts); first one-man show of abstract figure and landscape paintings and drawings by Robert Joseph Espie, San Francisco. M. H. DE YOUNG MUSEUM: "Individualists and Eccentrics," Chinese paintings by unorthodox masters (1650-MOOt from the collection of Mr. and Mrs.

R. W. Finlay-son, Toronto, Canada. Opens Aug. 4.

v- fy Ji, -i 1 mm x' t'Ai -1 -v, MUSIC ROUNDUP One of the finest treats of the summer are the free Sunday afternoon concerts at Stern Grove in San Francisco. Pack the kids in the car, take a picnic, arrive at the park by 19th Ave. and Sloat Blvd. some time before 2 p.m. If you haven't reserved a picnic table through the Recreation Department, spread out a blanket somewhere and enjoy the concert.

Berkeley's Justin Blasdale plays with the S. F. Symphony and Fiedler today, and the opera "Man-on" comes next Sunday. The Boston Pops' Arthur Fiedler is playing himself to ca- Cacity nouses this summer. He i conducting at Stern Grove today, Wednesday and Saturday at Masonic Auditorium, and Sunday at Stanford.

At last report, some tickets were still available all around. Young artists are sprouting here like wild flowers in Yosem-ite. Besides Fiedler's soloists (see Calendar), you may hear organist Garnell Copeland at the First United Presbyterian on Broadway next Sunday. He's half-way through his studies at Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, lives in Berkeley, took lessons from the First's organist Newton Pashley, and leans toward the romantics like Liszt and Frtnck, both of whom grace his program. No charge, donation only.

Jo Ana McKay, a product of the Cincinnati Conservatory, is giving today's Interstake Center Concert on organ here in Oakland. The young San Francisco State graduate student, headed for European studies next year, is capping her program with Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in Minor. Violinist Linda Athworth, a student of Rene Benedetti of the LUNDY SIEGRIEST IN HIS BACKYARD "STUDIO" Oakland's Concert by the Sea MUSIC weekend mountains Italian on Saturday and Sunday Trio" given at the Aug. mat- and $12, and single evenings Aug. 29 and .30, will inee; Brahms' "Clarinet Quin- sets $12, $9, $6.

feature Miss Boeard in the lead tet" and Mozart's Symphony Midst redwoods, By PAUL HERTELENDY Tribune Music Critic Oakland is growing its own budding music festival on a MUSIC CALENDAR and beaches, Oakland's summer offshoot weds the arts with nature in an ideal happy end for summer vacationers and music and art buffs alike. spanking-new college campus role of Illia. Concertante the same evening; Choral works through the two- and Bach's Unaccompanied Cel- week program will be sung by lo Suite in and Tartini's Viola the Oakland Symphony Cham- da Gamba Concerto, both ber Chorus under the direction played by Mme. Heinitz the fol- 0 TODAY SHOVE FESTIVAL, Arthur KAMEHAMEHA BOYS SCHOOL GLEI CLUB (Hawaii), Dlnkelsplel Auditor, lum, Stanford University, Pals Alto. I p.m.

WEDNESDAY STERN Fiedler and members of San Fran. Cisco Symphony with piano soloist Justin Blasdale. Orleg Piano Concerto, Beethoven Fifth Symphony, "My Fair Lady" medley, ''Berber of Seville" Overture, "Stars and Stripes Forever." Ifth Ave. and Sloat S.F. p.m.

Free 8 -i "Mtor tta aying ninety scenic minutes from here at the S.F. College for Women tomorrow night. She has already on rot1Un8 Santa Cruz Coast aoloed with both the San Fran- Don't be fooled by the label clsco Symphony and the Mo- "Cabrillo Music Festival' af-zarteum Orchestra of Salzburg, ter Cabrillo Junior College. The Looking 0,6 kernel of participants In this company "Antonio and the Bal- leU of Madrid" has been snap- offcrln8 on Au- ped up by the ubiquitous S. Hur- 28-30 is composed of members ok and booked into the Geary of the Oakland Symphony and Theater In San Francisco for choruS( aided by muscians and soloists from the national and "L'JSy'! Ton feSTIVAL, Arthur Fledlet end Sen Francises Symphony.

Mary Chl-Fun Lea In Sehumenn's plena ConCTrto. Masonic Auditorium, S.F. MUSIC FROM INDIA, Geyethrl Rale- Btr and Harlher Rao, UCLA. Alumni ouse. U.C.

Berkeley. I p.m. Free. SATURDAY' ft" ALDO MINELLA, guitarist, In solo con Berkeley. 1:30 p.m, cert at Hem Hell, JO ANN MCKAY.

oroenisf. Henoel, rg-Elen end Bach, Frenck, Dupre, Kara- of Robert Commanday. lowing afternoon. Most notable among the pre- The second weekend will start mieres will be the world pre- with a youth concert the after-miere of Lou Harrison's Sym- noon of Aug. 28, with Maestro phony in which was com- Samuel narrating between short posed over a six-year span, selections a la Bernstein.

The Moderns Hindemlth, Berg, Mar- same evening's program will in-tinu, Samuel and Myrow will elude Mozart's breathtaking' also be but only masterpiece, the Minor Con-: Shapey's "Seven for Piano Four certo, with Ludwig Olshansky Hands" reaches over into the on the piano, and four-hand pi-clear-cut realm of serial music, ano pieces played by Milton and end MIDSUMMER POPS FESTIVAL, Fled-ler end S.F. Ivnushanv. kArttAM Interstake Center, Lincoln Ave. 1 Warren hrd. a p.m.

Free. iff wmmj I 111 a ln; dance, is dancing to works by others. U.C.'s winsome Hiro Ima- international scene. Despite the fact that conductor Gerhard Samuel also con- Katys Yakutls In Bltet end Gounod arias, and harpist Joel Andrews In Kjrt erenata by Rodrlgo. Masonic Auditorium, S.F.

p.m, NEXT SUNDAY GUITARIST ANDRES SEGOVIA, sow concert, Herti Hall, Berkeley. 1:30 p.m. Sold out. GARNELL COPELAND, organist, program of Llit, Franek. Bach, Meselean, Dupre end Peshley, First Untied Pre bytertan Church, 21 Brcertway, I p.m, OrTsjTinj.

TN OROVE FESTIVAL ASSOCIA. TION presents Mesaanet's wa "un. MME. EVA HEINITZ FOLK SONG CONCERT, Ruth Ungar, Bill Farshay. Israeli, Elliabethan and American folk sen as.

Fellowship Church. 3041 Larkln, S.F. 4 p.m Voluntary ottering. PAUL MASSON VINEYARDS. Haydn', Symphony No.

101, Moiert's Slntonla Concertente and Motert's Plana Concerto No. M. San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Sandor Salgo, conductor. Soloists David Abel, Ferenc MoMer, Roy Bogas. Pawl Mas ton Mountain Winery, Saratoga.

p.m. Sold out. DUOPIANISTS YALTAH MENUHIN AND JOEL RYCE. Moierfs Sonata F. Malor, K.

47, Brahms' Lleboslieder Welties end Stravinsky's Petrouchka Villa Montatv Carrleoe House Theater, Saratoga. pjn. MONDAY VIOLINIST LINDA ASHWORTH, Bach KUUgD12SOluStWm du Oakland Symphony, Fiedler and the Pops. Hiro will play Beethoven's First Piano one would te hrd Put 10 rec" On the lighter side, the Aug. Peggy Salkind.

been violin soloist with Monleux S.rfSrff811 with Mozart Concert Aria, nees will leatur a variety of Concerto In this Masonic Audi- ofluze the group In its seaside ana tne Boston iympnony; ana K-505- Mozart wrote un- soloists and composers, with Da- torlum program. surroundings in Aptos off route 19th Ave. and Sloat Blvd. S.F, Free. UfR GALA FOLK SON COM.

Cr Ruth Ungen RoWn Brown, BUI Ferthev and fiSi ard Lancaster. Crystal Ballroom. Mm Hiro will also play a Mozart 1 between Santa" Cruz and Wat- violiflt Maxine Johnson, founder usual piece for soprano, piano vid Abel playtag Mozart'a Fifth 4 Minor Partita, Brahms Minor Soil- CHILDREN'S HEALTH SUMMER SYM phony and dueptantsti Wllllem Cvbai Jonee and Sylvia Jenkins. Frost Am ata and Ravel Sonata for Cell and Piano. Main Theeter, S.F.

Col leg for WOfTMna mJQ plffl aramoro university. concerto with the Oakland Sym- sonville. of the Amati String Quartet obbligato and orchestra wmle Violin Concerto on Saturday. phony next winter, all of which Starting in 1963, Cabrillo man- Tenors Walter Carringer, re- smitten with the charms of an The art exhibit, not to be for- ifl a cue to remind you that agement not only laid down the cent soloist in the Casals and En8lish Pr'- NancV Storace, gotten, Includes some 120 works series tickets fdr the eight-con- necessary foundations for this -rwwrwt Poctiv.ic ri wno was Salzburg- Evidently with German titans of the sta- cert symphony season run from second festival, but it has a Mozart wrote this for her to ture of Macke, Kokoschka and 128 down to $9.50, with the open- program ranging from 17th cen- Tnom Hageman, Philadelphia witn himself conducting the Nolde strongly represented. The erOct27.

tury Bruhns to 20th century Symphony flutist turned vocal- chamber orchestra from the first stowing of Dix' "Hrkus- Early bird warning: The Phil- Berg, complete with auspicious 1st, will join Carole Bogard and keyboard. mappe" is an added surprise. adelpbia Orchestra with Eugene instrumental and vocal soloists. Edgar Jones In the vocal offer- Among the other highlights Complete information on the -Ormandy is playing one con- Among them are Mme. Eva ings crowned by a concert ver- will be perhaps the two most sole remaining Bay Area festival cert In Masonic Auditorium in Heinitz, who has soloed on cello sion of Mozart's early opera popular chamber music pieces is available from the Cabrillo San Francisco on Sept 8.

It's with Fuertwaengler and Idem- "Idomeneo." of all, Schubert's "Trout Quin- Music Festival, Aptos, Callfor- to be a sellout. perer; -David Abel, who has "Idomeneo," to be given in tet" and Beethoven's "Archduke nit. Series tickets run 824, fit ARTIST SUPPLIES tanplete la UFATETTC ORGAN RKITAUST Jo Ann McKay, graduate of Cincinnati Conservatory, will give recital at the Interstake Center today af 4 p.m., playing works of-Handel, Frenck, Dupre, Karg-Elert, and Bach. a Gallery Beaux Arts 5406 Colleg Ave. -v OAKLAND 654-645 7-Open 12-8 1.

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