
Jane Wilson
Gump’s Gallery
Jane Wilson, a well-known New York artist, is represented by a show of recently done, and extremely evocative, landscape paintings. The quality of the exhibit is expressed perfectly in these lines from Proust: “How often during our walks have not my friends known me to halt like this at the turning off of an avenue, or beside a clump of trees, and ask them to leave me alone for a minute. Nothing came of it. I shut my eyes and made my mind a blank to recruit fresh energies for my pursuit of the past, then suddenly re-opened them, all in an attempt to see those same trees as if for the first time. I could not tell where I had seen them. I could recognize their shapes and their grouping, their outline seemed to have been traced from some beloved drawing that trembled in my heart. But I could tell no more of them and they themselves seemed by their artless passionate attitude to say how sorry they felt not to be able to make themselves clear, not to be able to tell me the secret that they well knew I could not unriddle.”

