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Two Faculty Men To Show Paintings In Rackham Building

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1947
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Two Faculty Men To Show Paintings In Rackham Building

Oil paintings of two widely different types—modern surrealist and detailed landscape—will be exhibited by two new University faculty members in the Rackham building galleries beginning Monday and continuing through March 14.

Charles Farr will exhibit paintings of Florida landscapes and of Army life in France and elsewhere during the war, while Gerome Kamrowski's showing will of abstract surrealism. Both joined the faculty last fall as drawing and painting instructors in the College of Architecture and Design, which is sponsoring the show.

Open to the public, the exhibition marks the first time either of the artists have shown their work locally, according to Prof. Jean P. Slusser, acting director of the University's Museum of Art. Hours of exhibition will be 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 10 p.m.

Farr began his work at the Art Students’ League in New York City and also studied in France. Before the war, he was a restorer of paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, and, among other duties, taught at the Civic Art Center at Jacksonville and Key West, Fla. His previous showings include those at the Carnegie Institute and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

During the war, Farr served in the Army Corps of Engineers. Examples of his work done at that time may be found in two books of soldier art: "Art in the Armed Forces,” and "G. I. Sketch Book.”

Kamrowski, also a veteran, was a scholarship student at the St. Paul, Minn., School of Art and, later, was a student at New Bauhaus in Chicago. He studied under Hans Hofmann at the Art Students’ League in New York, and in 1937 and 1939 obtained a fellowship from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York City.

His works have been exhibited at the San Francisco World’s Fair, the Chicago Art Institute Water Color Annual, the Whitney Museum Annual, and other places.