Currently showing at the Portland Art Museum is a very handsome show of lithographs produced by Louis Bunce and Carl Morris in the Tamarind Work­shop. Morris’ lithos seem to be a natural extension of his painting––his methods and techniques readily lend themselves to the print medium, and some of the textural effects in the prints are identical to those in his paintings.

Bunce’s prints, all smaller in size, and mostly black and white with perhaps one color added, relate both to land­scape and figures (rocky cliffs become breasts and buttocks) giving the con­tent a very intimate quality.

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There's no shotgun in sight, but the most headlong marriage between business and the arts in these parts in some time is the new gallery venture by the Hartford Building. So far the passion is more naive than calculated, which might just lead to a more lasting union than otherwise

The idea is simply this: the Hartford Building lobby, which has one of the busiest captive walk-through patronages downtown, has been converted into a 1,000 square-foot gallery with the addition of benches and large planters (live flowers, at that) and almost literally opening the door to any artist whose offerings