Miss Longval exhibits oils, pastels and drawings all in Rembrandt browns and rich golds. Her subject of choice is mother-and-child in many variations, all sensitive and competent naturalistic paintings but lacking in excitement. Her best, a self-portrait, is strongly reminiscent of Kathe Kollwitz. Miss Longval remembers color but once, in her rich little still life of pears and pink apples. The social forces mentioned in the exhibition brochure are manifest chiefly in the downcast glances of brown-skinned women of uncertain ethnic origin, and wistful, possibly hungry children. A study of two faces entitled Fear makes use of stark highlights a la Caravaggio and in Worker there is some delicate modulation, the inception of pattern and a facial technique strongly reminiscent of Goya.
—Mary Ewalt
