J. L. Hansen

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  print May 1963

  “Contemporary Tapestries”

  These tapestries are taken from cartoons by artists Jean Goodwin Ames, Reynold Arnould, Mary Bowling, Russell Cowles, Edgar Ewing, Michael Frary, Richard Haines, Jean Lurcat, Dan Lutz and Buckley MacGurrin. (All Americans except for Lurcat and Arnould.) Having toured the U.S. for two years, they are part of an exhibition put together by Otis Art Institute in collaboration with the Dalzell-Hatfield Gallery. Made in France on the famous looms of Aubusson, they are strikingly decorative and colorful. Mr. Hatfield should be commended for getting American artists dyed in the wool preparatory to

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  Ruth Osgood

  This could, or possibly should, be called a retrospective. The paintings range from prosaic matadors, decoratively stylized animals and figures to the later more mature designs of landscapes and seascapes which have a feeling for paint and sophisticated color. They are strong and tasteful, and at their best as they break out of their sometimes too rigid designs.

  — J. L. Hansen