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
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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.
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This Week's
Art Exhibits
The following art showings are on exhibit this week In
the Eugene area:
Museum of Art, University of Oregon "Art and Witticism
of Alfred Bendiner, Philadelphia artist-architect, through
Oct 28.
"Arts of Southern California: Collage," through Oct. 29.
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Watercolor paintings of early Eugene by the "Wilkins
Sisters" (Nina McCormack, Lucia Moore and Gladys Mc
Cready), on exhibit Sunday 1 to 5 p.m.; Monday and Tuesday
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Wednesday 9 a.m. to noon. Pioneer Mu
seum, Lane County Fairgrounds.
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Paintings by Delia Todd and Vivienne Simmons Fendrich,
at J. B. Donovan's Inc., 806 Charnelton St. 1
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Oil paintings and watercolors by 15 members of Tri-County
Art Club of Junction City, on exhibit at Baxter and Henning
through October.
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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.
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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. Hours
are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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