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Issue Date: APRIL 1989; VOLUME 53, ISSUE 561
IN THIS ISSUE:-
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COVER: Pink House, Red Geraniums, by Jacqueline Chesley, 1988, oil sticks on paper, 50 a 38. Courtesy Galerie plains heTimothy Tew, Atlanta, Georgia. Photo: Larry Souville.

FEATURES:
DONALD HOLDEN by M Stephen Doherty. Although he is an expert on materials and techniques, this artist and writer tries to make his artwork as direct, uncomplicated, and unpredictable as it can be.

PAINTING WITH OIL STICKS by Edward Feit. After 1983, when her pastels were featured in the magazine, Jacqueline Chesley discovered oil sticks as a medium suitable to her style and choice of subjects.

MEL PEKARSKY by Lynn Kari Petrich. Concerned about the "moral imperative in contemporary art," this New York artist asks himself the question: "Is what I am painting worth doing?".

THE WATERCOLOR PAGE: JUDY RICHARDSON GARD. This award-winning Texas artist explains her approach to watercolor.

JOHN TAYE'S BASSWOOD SCULPTURES by David Vaughn. This sculptor and teacher from Idaho demonstrates how he carves detailed still lifes in basswood.

WATERCOLORS THAT TRANSPORT artwork and text by Alfred Leslie. edited by Laurie S. Hurwitz. Over a six-year period, Alfred Leslie created a series of one hundred black-and-white watercolors from drawings made while traveling around the country. Those pictorial narratives are now circulating as an exhibition and are reproduced in a hardcover book.

PAINTING A PORTABLE MURAL by Gretchen Olson. Oregon artist Steve Ominski used hardboard panels to create a thirty- two-foot wall mural in his twenty-seven-foot country studio.

DEPARTMENTS:
LOOKING AT ART, with Hilton Brown.
LEYFERS.
EDITORIAL.
PROFESSIONAL PAGE by Daniel Grant.
ART MART.
ART BOOKS AND VIDEOS.
TECHNICAL PAGE by Prof Clifford T Chieffo.
BULLETIN BOARD.
QUICK TIPS 76 COMING IN MAY.
EXHIBITS.
FOOTNOTES.
INDEX TO ADVERTISING.

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