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Last spring sixteen city art students organized the Atelier
Sketch Club, limited its membership to those who, working by day, wished to
paint at night - and set to work. What they have accomplished in the past year is now on display at the Vancouver Art Gallery until April 14. Sharing these exhibition dates is a series of linoleum cuts by a talented youngster - he's not of voting age yet - named Peter Sager. A variety of mediums have been tried by Atelier Club members. Some of it is bad, of course; for only a few of them are experienced craftsmen. But there is much to interest the gallery fan: in oils and watercolours. Here is a group of enthusiasts and hard-working students who are doing creditable painting on a shoe string - and it is all local talent. Peter Sager's linoleum cuts, which have earned him exhibits in Seattle and Toronto, are too abstract for the average person to understand or enjoy. He has a flair for the medium; he is a sculptor besides. But he must be able to convey his ideas without explanatory captions or the public will fail to appreciate his work - and the public is the final judge. |