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I have been savoring a book from the County Library, "The Improper Bohemians", by Allen Churchill, which chronicles life in Greenwich Village during its peak era, 1913'30, when artists and writers gathered to share ideas and egg each other on beyond acceptable boundaries. In backrooms and attics, coffee houses and warehouses, aesthetic scouts would drink in tintillating refreshments and conversations, spouting out their own ideas. This book holds a great deal of appeal for me, as my youthful self has longed for a community which courted, embraced, and created Art, and which would be supportive of my own longings and efforts. As far back as High Schoo, I loitered about the Art Room, five periods a day, convincing my incredulous teachers and counselors thpt it was necessary to-'koak in the atmosphere as. well as produce work. At PCA, I found the stimulus of communication on the steps and in the cafeteria to be a reinforcing influence on painting upstairs in the studios. I began to sense, then, the spirit of Art which runs through us artists, tying us in to the larger stream while allowing us to trickle about in our own style. Since maturing slightly, I have come to realize that there is no one place for this, no one perimeter which contains all of the vital activity in this age. The world has never seen so many artists, and we are everywhere, playing our role in every town and city. Cape May County seems to have a strong concentration of painters, living here or passing through, attracted by the beauty and atmosphere of this place. Situated as we are geographically, we can easily visit New York, Philadelphia,

Washington to view art on a grand. scale, ih the meantime producing within our own environs. Also ,,there are various art organizations in the area, each serving itself and the community its own flavor of doing. I have joined and founded a few myself and so have an inside picture of their possibilities and pitfalls. Apart from chartered organizations, there are meetings on a smaller scale which have rather more direct influence. I have met so many artists on “chance" encounters which makes me feel there is a force drawing us together. BUI (W. Wallace) Smith calls this a "chain" and the artist a "link". I had lived on 7th Street for a year before learning that Franklin WatkinS (a respected Philadelphia painter) had lived there too. Since then, I have entered his sphere of influence not only be living and painting in the same locations, but also by painting with people who knew and worked with him. Last week, three of us were bayside at 9th Street making marks on paper in response to the vision before us. Each of us has a unique viewpoint; aside from the position of our bodies, we brought to the scene everything that we had experienced up to that time, plus a developed manner of working, and a personal motivation for doing so. Bill Smith has painted the scene again and again, but was still looking for afresh information. Working with

pencil, he sketched in a drawing for a watercolor of boat and channel. Bill Martone, who teaches painting at the Pennsylvania Academy, was taken in by the "Betsy Ann” docked there and he explored her lines and vplumes in notations to be used at a later time while working up a painting in his Wilmington studio. I scrambled among the debris and wildflowers for a perch from where to observe the scene which included the two artistt, the boat, and on around the channel to Frankli'n 'Watkin’s house and beyond.

Pages Later we viewed each others’ works, eager to exchange criticism and witticisms. Experiences such as these help us to see our works with a fresh eye, and encourage us to build adjoining rooms onto our ivory towers for visiting influences. Mi/ls Birth HERSHEY, pa. - Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Mills are the proud parents of a baby girl bom Aug. 3 Mrs. Mills is the former Janice E. Ewart. The Mills reside at 165 Brookside Ave., Hershey.

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