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fornia);InternationalBusinessMachinesCorporation;theUnited StatesTreasury
andState Departments; andisowned i)ymany privatecollectors. Helives in
Berkeley,California.
LUNDEBERG,Helen,TheMirror, 30 x36. Illustration—Plate 58
"Myaimhasalwaysbeentocreatepoetryinvisualterms.TheMirror,likemost
ofmyworkduringthepasttwentyyears,issubjectiveinorganization:thatis,allof
itspictorialelements,formalandfigurative,mustcontributetoitslyricunity,ofmood
oremotionalimport.Intheu.seoflarge,flatcolor-areastosuggestwalls,floor,and
landscape,IfindthatIhavereturnedtocertainaspectsofmyearlierPostsurrealist
paintings,inwhichdetailissimilarlyeliminatedforsubjectiveends.Ihavealways
paintedfigurativelybecauseitistheonlymethodadequateformypurpose;because
theassociations,the'meanings'ofrecognizableformsarcnecessarytothekindof
poeticentitiesIwishtocreate."
HelenLundcbergwasborninChicagoin1908.Since 1912 shehaslivedin
California,whereshestudiedwithLorserFeitelson,whoisnowherhusband.Her
paintingshavebeenexhibitedacro.ssthecountry.Amongawardsareapurchaseprize
atChaffeeCollege,Ontario,California,in1949,andtheFirstPurchase.Awardof
$!,0()nattheJuneshowoftheLosAngelesCountyMuseumin 1950 forherSfriri;;.
whichwasexhibitedattheUniversityofIllinoisearlierinthe.sameyear..Among
museumsandprivatecollectionswhereherworkhasfoundaplacearethe San
FranciscoMuseumofArt;FourArtsSocietyofWestPalmBeach,Florida;Chaffee
College;andtheLos.AngelesCountyMuseum.ShelivesinLosAngeles,California.
MAGAFAN,Ethel,DarkRiver, 25 x49. Illustration—Plate 62
EthelMagafanwasborninChicago,Illinois,in1916,butwasrearedinColorado.
SheisthetwinsisterofJenneMagafan,whoisalsoapainter,andismarriedto
painterBruceCurrie.EthelMagafanstudiedatthe ColoradoSpringsFine.Arts
CenterandwithFrankMechau,BoardmanRobinson,andPeppinoMangravite.She
haspaintedmuralsforthe.SenateChamber,RecorderofDeedsBuilding,andSocial
SecurityBuilding,allinWashington,D.C.;andforthepostofficesat.Auburn,Ne-
braska;Wynne,Arkansas;Madill,Oklahoma;andDenver(SouthDenverBranch),
Colorado.Sheisparticularlywell-knownforpanoramiclandscapes.HerLonesome
ValleyreceivedHonorableMentioninthecompetitiveshowofContemporar)'Atncri-
canArtattheMetropolitanMuseumof.ArtinUJ.'iO,andwaspurcha.sedbythe
museuin.ShealsowonthefirstHallgartenPrizeattheNational.AcademyofDesign
in19.')IandnowisinEurope,havingreceivedaFulbrightawardinI9.')l.llerpaint-
ingshavebeenexhibitedwidelyandformapartofthecollectionsoftheDenver
(Colorado) ArtMuseumandtheMetropolitanMuseumofArtinNew^'ork.She
li\TsinWoodstock.NewYork.
MANGRAVITE,Peppino,Incubus, 22 x44. Illustration—Plate 93
"IntheseriesknownasTheSongofthePod.whichIexecutedsevenyearsago,
mysententiousstatementswereconveyedobjecli\cl\;Ilookedatman'suni\erseand
sangaboutitsperennialaspects.
"AndnowI.seemtobedeeplypreoicupiedwiththeuniversewithinmanand
IfindIcanexpressthatbestwithapictorialcontextcontemporaneousinstyleand
subjectiveindirection.IcallthislatestseriesDemonsandaSecularSaintbecau.se
throughthesepaintingsIwishtocomniunicatcasympatheticunderstandingofman's
