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EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Sunday, Oct. 21, 1962 Page 7E Fallout From the Culture Boom? Drawings Qain Sudden Popularity By WARD CANNEL Of till NEA NEW YORK To the cellar, quick. That distant rumble is the U.S. culture boom out of control again. With paintings, drippings and other artistic delusions selling for about triple their appraised value, the art mar ket is now beginning to go haywire over drawings. What great-grandma put in the attic or didn't even bother to frame at all is suddenly selling for $300 to $1,000 each, adding up to the greatest price jump by far of anything in the whole crazy art business. Now, it is somewhat diffi cult to define a drawing as it can be anything from a doodle to a painstaking complete work of art. Frequently it is an artist's blueprint for a painting, a record of a canvas he has finished, or simply an idea or diversion. And a hasty sketch of the Duchess of Devonshire set down by Sir Joshua Reynolds on an old grocery bill is likely to bring as fat a price today as the detailed plan for a Art Center Calendar Monday, Oct. 22 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Painting, Vivienne Fendrich, instruc tor. Tuesday, Oct. 23 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Work shop with model, no instruc tor. 1 to 3 p.m. Painting, Vi vienne Fendrich, instructor. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Water color and oil painting, Ray Lcvra, instructor. Wednesday, Oct. 24 2 to 4 p.m. Painting, Anne McCosh, instructor. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Water color and oil painting, Ray Levra, instructor. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Silk screen workshop, Dave Fos ter, instructor. Thursday, Oct. 25 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Workshop with model, no instructor. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Etching workshop, Eyler Brown, in atructor. All classes and workshops will be held at the Center Building, 531 W. 13th Ave. Further information may be obtained by calling the Cen ter, DI 5-1126 Monday, Wed nesday, Friday between 9 a.m. and 12 noon. painting by Bronzino or Reu bens. Until fairly recently, draw ings were usually collected by artists or by fanciers who swapped and traded them the way your kids deal in canceled postage stamps or hubcaps. "Then suddenly," reports Helen Seifcrheld, "it all be came popular with a bang." Mrs. Seifcrheld, who deals only in drawings, found her self in a strange new world. In addition to the important personages and avid collectors who would make appoint ments to see' her stock, she now receives daily requests to "mail a selection of drawings on approval," or a sale on easy terms. On request, museums are uM ,c"m Imprinted Napkins Brides Books Bibles mm Omwtf 865 Willamette St beginning to give lectures to sellout audiences on how to look at drawings. Galleries de voted exclusively to drawings are opening and doing nicely. Young marrieds, who would have decorated their first walls with prints of famous works, are now buying draw ings on time. Traveling exhibits of draw ing collections are playing cities such as Terre Haute, lnd., and Minneapolis, Minn. No university art department today fails to display its drawing collection. And sell ing quite well is a new four volume set of books called "Master Drawings" which is priced at a modest $175. "It's amazing." Mrs. Setter held says. "It's driven the market prices up about 500 per cent in the past five years." And why? First, obviously, because we've all gone art mad. And a drawing is the way to own a work by well-known artists for far less than their paint ings cost. Second, because the trend appears to be away from ab stract splashings at long last and back to clear and pure draughtsmanship. And last, because buying a drawing can be a challenge not easily matched in today's transistorized living room. Quite frequently drawings are unsigned and only thor ough detective work can turn up the artist's name. Sleuth ing usually involves retracing the path of the drawing from collector to collector, from auction to auction. Luckily for the drawing fan cier, today's culture boom has also created collectors of old auction catalogues. The going rate for a nifty antique cata logue in good condition is now up to $9u and still rising. Learn More to EARN MORE! You can Increase your earning power . . . whether you're a becln nr or an experienced tecretary ... by learning the skills moit In demand In tnday'a world of business. Improve your prexent akllla, learn the lateat secretarial techniques, gain proficiency on the newest business machines. If you want to I.RARN more to EARN more, write today for the free bulletin describing all courseal Name . Address ....... ..... 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Donovan's Inc., 806 Charnelton St. 1 e Oil paintings and watercolors by 15 members of Tri-County Art Club of Junction City, on exhibit at Baxter and Henning through October. e Oil paintings by Dick Rosenfeld, at 12th Avenue Gallery, 361 E. 12th Ave., through October. Hours 3 to 6 p.m. daily; Thursday and Friday 7 to 9 p.m. Exhibit of assorted Art Media by Eugene artists Bonnie and James Bartell, Petite Gallery, Bon Marche Russells, through October. Contemporary wall hangings, lery, University of Oregon. Erb Memorial Union Gal- Paintings by Chester Glenn Murphy of Lake Oswego, Springfield Public Library, Oct. 15 through 31. e e Traveling exhibit with photographs, sketches and textual material on the 1962 winners of the annual architectural com petition of the Church Architecural Guild of America will be on display through Tuesday in the lobby of Lawrence Hall, School of Art and Architecture, University of Oregon. 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