The Sacramento Bee from Sacramento, California • 129

$1 "Vi- f-fcftl ART yy StttfSrS XtstAr ft vS tt i Bay Area Art Shows Series On Sculpture Is Begun By Boole Publisher Picture Rentals Set Record Will Reopen Thursday Sacramento area residents rented a record setting 1693 pictures from the rental service sponsored by the Crocker Art Gallery and Tuesday Club during April The service began about a decade ago with a collection of 25 paintings of which only Students Will Audition For Scholarships Auditions for the Morris Ljwles scholarships to the Sacramento State Summer Music Camp will be held Tuesday at Sacramento State College under the auspices of the Junior Music Sponsors of Sacramento Two students will receive $50 each for expenses at the camp which will be held from July 31st to August 1 1th The students auditioning for the scholarships are from high schools in the San Juan Unified School District Judges for the event are Daniel Backman Norman Hunt and Robert Humiston Chairman for Junior Music Sponsors is Mrs Richard Baker Students auditioning are: El Camino High School: Carole Bell violin Bob Burkett flute Patsy Gibbs violin Jim Norton trombone and Jim Powers trumpet Encina High School: Edmonds Chandler violin and Janet Murty flute San Juan High School: Ed-wina Aquino violin: Michael Pyle baritone horn and Bill Stacey string bass Mira Loma High School: Jack Hammond oboe A The major art museums of the bay region have announced the following exhibits for May: DE YOUNG MEMORIAL MU-SEUM Golden Gate Park San Fran Sculpture by John Baxter through May German expressionist paintings from the collection of Mr and Mrs Morton May including Beckmann Kirchner Noide Kandinsky and Marc opens May 27th Wedgwood ceramics of tra 1 8th and 19th Centunr sponsored by the Wedgwood International Seminar through May 1 4th The 2 1st annual exhibition of the Society of Western Artists through May 21st SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF ART Civic Center Sara Roby Foundation collection of work by contemporary American artists through June 14th Contemporary prints from Holland May 4th-June 11th An exhibition of the work of the Italian architectural engineer Pier Luigi Nervi May 12th-June 18th Children's art from the museum's Saturday classes May 15tti-Jone 4th Exhibition of art selections of the Society for the En-couragement of Contemporary Art May Uth-June 4th CALIFORNIA PALACE OF THE LEGION OF HoNOR Lincoln Park San Exhibition of 150 works by Maurice Prendergast America's first modern pamter through June 3rd SF Symphony Enrique Jorda and the San Francisco Symphony will present a single concert this week at 8:30 PM on Saturday with the horn section featured in Concert Piece for four horns and orchestra in Suite Provencale and the Symphony No 3 of Saint-Saens with Ludwig Altman at the organ also will be on the program HOT COLD Ice cold Spring Fresh Water hot drinks soups ice compartment Real office morale booster and money saver -unit only $570 per mo (Reg list price $950 per mo) Water at 40 off list! SACRAMENTO WOODLAND DAVIS FR1-S67Q TUBA CITY-MARYSVILLE SH3-539C AUBURN TO 5-B31S By John Oglesby ABOUT six years ago a new art book publishing firm appeared which has set two kinds of records One is of bringing out an impressive number of fine books The other is remaining in business in a highly speculative field The -organization is the New York Graphic Society- and judging from some recent publications there is no indication of a letup in quantity or quality Newest Books y- Newest on the list of its publications are the first two volumes of a series of books devoted to great masterpieces of sculpture entitled The Acanthus History Of Sculpture They are Ancient Egypt with text by Christiane Des-roches Noblecourt chief curator of the National Museums of France and UNESCO adviser at the Egyptian Center for Documentation and Archaeological Studies in Cairo and Classical Greece with text by Dr Nicholas Yalouris director of the Museum of Olympia Greece and superintendent of antiquities in the Western Peloponnese The text in both books consists of a 16 page well written discussion of the art work and the period in which it was created and captions for 32 pages of pictures The photographs are excellent and are the work of Kenett a lens artist of impressive ability and sensitivity The reproduction is first rate and benefits from the page size of by 14 Vt inches The first volume deals with masterpieces of the New Kingdom and the Amama Period of Egypt The second concentrates on the frieze from the Parthenon which is in the British Museum and is known as the Elgin Marbles Fine Beginning Altogether the volumes provide a magnificent beginning for the series which the publisher announces will include two or more books on the sculpture of the northern Mediterranean Medieval Europe the Italian Renaissance the Baroque and Rococo the Near East and Far East Africa the oceanic islands the Americas and international modem styles of today There seems every reason to believe the future volumes will continue the high standards set since the whole series will be edited by Sir Herbert Read internationally art authority and author of many art books in Dealers la 1 SWIM CRUZ POOLS 18 were rented during the first month of the service The picture rental service is directed by its founder Mrs Pook and operated by volunteer workers Original paintings drawings and prints are displayed in the Crocker Gallery ballroom during the first Thursday through Saturday of each month except during summer Residents of the Sacramento area may select and rent these paintings for fees ranging from 60 cents to $310 per month The next rental display period will be Thursday through Saturday from 10 AM to 4:30 PM lifjHTM OFFICE New savings for your office operation Popular electric cooler for only $300 per 'mo (Reg list price: $500) Water at 40 off list! cluding The Art Of Sculpture and A Concise History Of Modem Painting and Molesworth one vl the leading authorises on sculpture who is on the staff of the Victoria and Albert Museum In London B-yh volumes are priced at $695 Shortly after these volumes arrived another book from the same publisher showed up This one turned out to be a very adventurous undertaking Its title is Indian Art In America and is by Dr Frederick Dockstader director of the Museum of the American Indian Heye Foundation New York I say adventurous because of this: Although there has been a tremendously expansion of the art public in this country in recent decades en- thusiasm does not seem to have extended to an appreciation of the art accomplishments Of the original Americans In the world of art the work of the Indian does not pop up very much in conversation or classroom ccus-sions For me this boo' "-as a major revelation for I had no idea so much had be-m created or any idea o' the variety of the North American arts and crat The book the publisher reports took six years of preparation the length of the life It is a beauiiu! volume loaded with sharp black and white photos and many many sparkling color reproductions Dr Dockstader points out that the general treatment of the Indian by the white man as he took Over the continent practically wiped out all material trace of the civilization Examples of arts and crafts therefore are not as numerous as that of other primitive civilizations of less size and importance In California the author says the gold rush led to a faster and more total destruction of the Indian civilization than anywhere else in the country This is a first rate book about a long neglected field And one that is full of surprises few anyone who like me is not very well informed on the art of the American Indian The price is $25 DO YOU HEED? 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