Ox-Bow press, 1953

Open 1953 Art Work At Ox-Bow First week of the 1953 season of the Summer School of Painting brought the largest first-week enrollment in the history of the school, Director Elsa Ulbricht announced. . The large classes in figure painting under Peitro Lazzari got under way Monday morning after the entire school had met for discussion of the season's program. Dan Lutz took the landscape painting classes to the Ferry Store, Riverside Cemetery and other locations for subject matter during the week. The Pottery department under Glenn Nelson started work in the reconstructed pot-shop with much new equipment. Marian Bode and Dorothy Meredith and Madeline Tourtelot are busy with crafts students in weaving, screen printing and jewelry. The graphic arts teachers, Emily Parks and Vera Berdich, gave talks and demonstrations in lithography and etching. Most of these classes, as well as some craft, are conducted in the evenings. Students this year come largely from Illinois but eleven states are represented. From Chicago are enrolled Betty Archias, Robert Anderson, Lucile Brisk, James Guske, Norman Jaffe, Rose Marie Krein- hofner, Bernice Morressey, Claes Oldenburg, Doris and Neil Ross, Augusta Sawite, and Lillian Williams. Other Illinois enrollments are Louise Brune, Highland Park; Marian Imberman, Downers Grove; Barbara and Klindt Houlberg, Crystal Lake; Valborg Nyden, Ten • and Joan Tourtelot, Jean Martin, Katherine Seyl and Ruth Flax, Evanston; and Ruth Rahmeyer, Wyoming. From Wisconsin come Ralph Kohloff, Joanne and Dorothy Lucht, and Louise Martin, Milwaukee; Caroline Piper, Madison; Herbert V. Kohler, Kohler; Heinz Mertes, (Sheboygan;. James Richardson, Eau Claire.