Dartmouth Art Show in Boston

Dartmouth College will mark the tenth year of its artist-in-residence program at the Hopkins Center by offering a retrospective exhibition honoring 27 contemporary artists who have been at the College since the program began in 1962.

The "Artists at Dartmouth" exhibition had its opening in the Jaffe-Friede Gallery of Hopkins Center on September 14, and it will have a second gala opening in Boston's New City Hall on October 14, under the triple sponsorship of Mayor Kevin White's "Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs," the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Greater Boston, and the College. The Boston show will continue through October 30.

Truman Brackett Jr. '55, Dartmouth's Director of Galleries, says of the exhibition: "Since Hopkins Center opened in the fall of 1962, more than half a million people have visited the galleries. This great interest in the visual arts program is in large measure due to the contributions of our resident artists. This retrospective review of their selected works, ranging from the optical art of Richard Anuszkiewicz, the contemporary realism of Walter Murch and Joseph Hirsch, through the assemblages exemplified by Varujan Boghosian and Jason Seley to minimal art by Donald Judd and Larry Zox, demonstrates the remarkable variety of media and points of view to which the undergraduate student in the visual arts is exposed."

Most of the entries are from Dartmouth's permanent collection, with about one-fourth being lent by collectors, galleries, and the artists. Chronologically the exhibition begins with the painting Aegean by Friedl Dzubas who came as the first artist-in-residence in the fall of 1962. He was followed in 1963 by four notable artists: painters Robert Rauschenberg and Frank Stella, and sculptors James Rosati and Tal Streeter. The most recent works are etchings and drawings by Richard Claude Ziemann, the first graphic artist in the resident program, who spent this past summer at Dartmouth.

Also represented in the "Artists at Dartmouth" exhibition are George Rickey, whose stainless steel sculpture-inmotion Sedge will be on view in Hanover and Boston; Varajan Boghcsian, now Professor of Art at the College, whose construction Homage to Orpheus makes use of weathered wood, metal, and torn canvas; Dimitri Hadzi, whose 15-inch bronze model for Thermopylae—J.F.K. was the forerunner of the 16- foot-high memorial which stands at the entrance to the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Building in Government Center, Boston; Jason Seley, whose Hanover I and Boys from Avignon show his use of chromium-plated automobile bumpers as his medium; Canadian Sorel Etrog, who did two monumental bronzes for EXPO-67 in Montreal; Lyman Kipp, a young contemporary sculptor; Leroy Lamis, who uses plexiglas for his luminous structures; sculptors Elbert Weinberg and Jack Zajac, both of whom work in studios in Rome; and Donald Judd, who worked at Dartmouth in the summer of 1966 and will exhibit a multi-sectioned piece.

Important among the painters represented are Richard Anuszkiewicz, unchallenged in the realm of optical art, and Frank Stella, who will have a drawing, an oil, and a color lithograph in the show. Hannes Beckmann, now Professor of Art at Dartmouth, will be represented by his acrylic and oil painting Aurora; Nicholas Krushenick by his silkscreen prints; Larry Zox by some of the paintings in his GeminiSeries, done at Dartmouth in 1969; and David Porter by one of his collages. Other painters who will contribute impressively to the exhibition are the Mexican artist Xavier Esqueda, Joseph Hirsch, A. B. Jackson, Robert Rauschenberg, and Julian Stanczak.

Viewing the exhibition in Hopkins Center with Mrs. Jean Kemeny (r) are three ofthe Dartmouth wives who will be hostesses at the October 22 gala opening inBoston. L to r: Mrs. Charles W. Bartlett ('27), Mrs. F. William Andres ('29), andMrs. Ira L. Berman ('42), chairman of the women's committee.