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Issue Date:
March 1980; Volume 44, Issue 452
IN THIS ISSUE:-
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COVER: A mural, located on 42nd Street in New York City, by Richard Haas.
RICHARD HAAS: ILLUSIONS FROM THE PAST by Pat Van Gelder. Internationally-known printmaker, painter, and muralist Haas
discusses how he uses his talents to record America's Vanishing historic buildings.
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: GEORG SHOOK by M. Stephen Doherty. This visit to an artist's living/working space takes us to Shook's studio/
apartment in a building on a designated historic site in Memphis.
JOSEPH A. JANCZUK AND CONSTANCE BOTTINELLI: SCENES OF ATLANTIC CITY by Pat Van Gelder. New Jersey artists-teachers
Janczuk and Bottinelli discuss the research, organization, and promotion that went into their traveling exhibition of 40 paintings
based on the history of Atlantic City and their painting styles.
JOAN BAREN: THE ARTIST AS PRESERVATIONIST by Pat Van Gelder. Baren, who creates large pen-and-ink drawings of Long Island's
historic buildings, discusses her techniques and the artist's role in historic preservation.
REX ROBINSON: KENTUCKY PAINTER AND HISTORIAN by Pat Van Gelder An interest in preservation led to a state commission for
paintings reflecting the life-style and landscape around Owensboro for this artist.
THE WATERCOLOR PAGE: DON RANKIN. Rankin details his painting techniques and how his paintings helped raise money to restore an
historic home in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
KALARSON: ARTISTS AND ACTIVISTS by Pat Van Gelder. Kalarson, a company formed by Ken Larson and two fellow graduates of
Pratt Institute dedicated to raising funds for the restoration of historic buildings in New Britain, Connecticut, is discussed here along
with Larson's approach to his drawing and printmaking.
1980 DIRECTORY OF ART SCHOOLS AND WORKSHOPS Edited by Robert Hudoba, Jon Braude, and Joan Elsener.
LOOKING AT PAINTINGS by Bernard Dunstan.
EDITORIAL: Artists and Historic Preservation by M. Stephen Doherty.
FORUM: Why Should Communities Consider Restoring Their Cultural Assets? by Thomas Hoving.
PROFESSIONAL PAGE by Betty Chamberlain.
TECHNICAL PAGE by Ralph Mayer.
GALLERY HAPPENINGS. ART BOOKS. FOOTNOTES. BULLETIN BOARD.
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