Winter 2014 Vol. 19, No. 1 Page 2 Members in the News Associate Members in the News Best In Show Richard Haynes Page 3 Elected Members Show Best in Show: Robert Nardolillo Associate Members Show Page 4 In Memoriam June Benson & Frances McIlvain Page 5 Charles Demuth- American Modernist by Art Klein Page 6 NJWCS Calendar and Info Winter 2014 Artists’ PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Brrrr! This new year has certainly arrived with a vengeance! I trust everyone is staying warm and busy indoors…painting. Hopefully the winter wonderland we’ve been dealt has given some of you renewed inspiration. You have to admit that the blanket of snow is beautiful in spite of its inconvenience. The board has been busy re-investigating some areas we have looked at in the past…mainly the idea of digital entries for the Open Juried Exhibition in the fall. It is one of the subjects that comes up at most board meetings, and ends with the notion that we will look into it further. Jinnie, ever diligent has been doing just that. She has spent a great deal of time and energy exploring how to make the Open Juried Exhibition more effi- cient, with the idea of having the entries juried by digital images. Because this is such a big step, we have decided to ask the membership for their input in this process, so look for an upcoming survey that asks your opinion. Please send your response back, so your voice can be heard. If we are going to have this succeed, t is important that the membership is onboard with this process. Stay tuned for more on this. We know that transitions can be difficult, but the goal is to keep the membership up to date with the times. With sup- port and guidance, we are confident we can make the tran- sition into digital submission relatively painless for our members. Having just celebrated our 75 th Anniversary, we are looking to move gracefully into the future, and look for- ward to another 75 successful years. Wishing everyone a happy and healthy new year! Donna Roettger President, NJWCS New Jersey Water Color Society www.njwcs.org
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Winter 2014
Vol. 19, No. 1Page 2 Members in the News
Associate Members in the News
Best In Show Richard Haynes
Page 3 Elected Members Show
Best in Show: Robert Nardolillo
Associate Members ShowPage 4 In Memoriam
June Benson & Frances McIlvain
Page 5 Charles Demuth-American Modernist by Art Klein
Page 6 NJWCS Calendar and Info
Winter 2014Artists’
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Brrrr! This new year has certainly arrived with a vengeance! I trust everyoneis staying warm and busy indoors…painting. Hopefully the winter wonderlandwe’ve been dealt has given some of you renewed inspiration. You have toadmit that the blanket of snow is beautiful in spite of its inconvenience.
The board has been busy re-investigating some areas we have looked at inthe past…mainly the idea of digital entries for the Open Juried Exhibition inthe fall. It is one of the subjects that comes up at most board meetings, andends with the notion that we will look into it further.
Jinnie, ever diligent has been doing just that. She has spent a great deal oftime and energy exploring how to make the Open Juried Exhibition more effi-cient, with the idea of having the entries juried by digital images.
Because this is such a big step, we have decided to ask the membership fortheir input in this process, so look for an upcoming survey that asks youropinion. Please send your response back, so your voice can be heard. If weare going to have this succeed, t is important that the membership isonboard with this process. Stay tuned for more on this.
We know that transitions can be difficult, but the goal is tokeep the membership up to date with the times. With sup-port and guidance, we are confident we can make the tran-sition into digital submission relatively painless for ourmembers. Having just celebrated our 75th Anniversary, weare looking to move gracefully into the future, and look for-ward to another 75 successful years.
Wishing everyone a happy and healthy new year!
Donna Roettger
President, NJWCS
New Jersey Water Color Society www.njwcs.org
Board policy for Member News is no more than 3 items per issue. Please submit in narrative form, and
submit only once per newsletter cycle. The Editor reserves the right to edit submissions.
GREG BRUNO, AWS won an “Award of Excellence” atthe 33rd Annual Mountain Art Show, Bernardsville NJ,and had the honor of judging of the Pine Shores Art As-sociation Show in Manahawkin, NJ.
LISA BUDD First place award for watercolor in the AvalonArt Show, a Merit Award in Caldwell's Art on the Avenue,and Second place in the Center for the Arts in SouthernNJ Annual Watercolor show in Marlton, NJ.
MARK DE MOS was judge of the Central New York Wa-tercolor Society Member Show, Utica NY while he wasthe featured artist at their annual meeting, and judge ofPascack Art Association’s first annual open juried showat the Ridgewood Art Institute, Ridgewood, NJ.
JINNIE MAY received an Award of Excellence at the 33rd
Annual Mountain Art Show in Bernardsville ,NJ, The Jud-son Outfitter's Award at The North East Watercolor Soci-ety's Annual International Show in Kent, CT and an Awardof Merit at The Garden State Watercolor Society's 44th
Annual Open Juried Exhibition in Stockton, NJ.
2 Elected Members in the News: MARILYN ROSE was one of four artists selected by aprestigious group of artists and art professionals to be anArtist in Residence in Bryant Park. Her duties were topaint in the park for a two week period; the work will be-come part of the permanent collection of the Bryant ParkCorporation. Marilyn has recently been hired as an ad-junct professor at Seton Hall University and a faculty mem-ber of The Art School at the Old Church (Demarest, NJ,www.tasoc.org) to teach watercolor. Her painting, Pa-tience, has been juried into the Catharine LorillardWolfe 17th Annual Juried Open Exhibitionat the NationalArts Club, October, 2013.
LOIS SANDERS was juried into the North East Watercol-or Society's 37th Annual International Juried Exhibit inKent, CT in November. Lois also received an Award ofExcellence at the Garden State Watercolor Society's 44th
Annual Open Juried Exhibit at the Historic Prallsville Mills,Stockton.
Associate Members NewsPlease send in your news of getting into juried shows, awards, shows and any firsts, first exhibit, first juried show, first group show, first one person show…
DANTE BONARDI exhibited at the Westfield Memorial Library in the sum-mer and his old home town Cliffside Park Library, in October.
ISABELLA PIZZANO gained Signature status from The International Socie-
ty of Acrylic Painters after being juried into their annual show in Paso Ro-
bles Ca. She also received Honorable Mentions from the Garden State Wa-
tercolor Society’s Annual Juried Show in Prallsville Mills and the “Viewpoints
2013” juried exhibit at the Aljira Center for Contemporary Art.
MEDY BOZKURTIAN was juried into the 85th Grand National Exhibition of
the American Artists Professional League NYC, and the 2013 North East
Watercolor Society International Exhibition. In addition, she had 40 recent
original watercolor and oil paintings at the Bouras Properties Galleries in
Summit in the fall of 2013. November 1st through December 30th, she will
have a solo exhibition and sale at the Madison Library in March.
JUDI GILDEN was listed in the August 2013 Issue, “ART IN AMERICA 2013
GUIDE: MUSEUMS, GALLERIES, ARTISTS”. Her painting, "Sunlight on the
Vine" was juried into The American Artists Professional League, Inc., 85th
Grand National Exhibition 2013.
JILL VONDERVOR-FRANK won anAward of Merit for her painting MichiganFish House at the New Jersey Chapterof American Artist ProfessionalLeague, Inc. 2013 Open State Juried Ex-hibition of Representational Art at theOcean County College Arts & Commu-nity Center Gallery, Toms River, NJ.
Paintings at the NJWCS 75th Anniver-
sary Exhibition in Clifton,NJ by noted
artists from NJWCS history
Arthur Barbour, left, Lucille Hobbie,
Avery Johnson, and Arthur Starin.
New Jersey Water Color Society 75th Anniversary Show,Clifton Arts Center. Nov 6 - Dec 14
Congratulations to all the award winners and to all the entrants.
Best in Show - Richard William Haynes "Center Stage"
Awards of Excellence -Joel Popadics "Low Tide Rocks"Tim Gaydos "Fish House Road"Rita Bodner "Sea Window"
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Rita Bodner
Tim GaydosJoel Popadics
Richard Haynes
New Jersey Water Color Society 2014 Associate Members’ ShowRuns from January 21 -March 4, 2014
Mayo Center For the Arts (Community Theatre), South Street Morristown, NJ.This is a themed show that celebrates New Jersey's 350th Anniversary and depicts aspects of andaround New Jersey. Be sure to stop by and see this exciting exhibit which runs from A big thanks toall who entered and especially those who faired our NJ weather on receiving day. A special thankyou to our Associate Show Chair Judy Hummer and our Awards Judge, Member-at-Large, JoanMcKinney for a truly magnificent show. We are proud to announce and congratulate the winners.
Best in Show- Robert Nardolillo "On My Way Home"
Awards of ExcellenceTheresa Kubert- "Peppers"Gloria Stumm "New Jersey Junior Grand Champion"Toni Chaplin "Blacksmith Shop, Waterloo Village"
Robert Nardolillo
Gloria StummTheresa Kubert
In Memoriam:
JUNE BENSON, born in East Orange in 1930, andmoved to Florida in 1986, passed away peacefully onSeptember 10, in Jacksonville, Florida. She was aNJWCS member since 1977, a member of the FloridaWatercolor Society and a member and served on theboard of the National Association of Women Artists(NAWA). She won the High Winds Medal from theAmerican Watercolor Society and the Miriam HalpernAward from NAWA. June was known for her intuitive ap-proach that used a combination of naturalistic and in-ventive imagery featuring flowers, stones and underwa-ter motifs that had a mystical quality. June and her fami-ly enjoyed summers in Belmar and Asbury Park and teamed with her husband George, who made herframes and mats, going to numerous art shows.
FRANCES MCILVAIN born in East Orange in 1925, passed away at home in TintonFalls on July 31. She was a member of the American Watercolor Society, Guildof Creative Arts, GardenState Watercolor Societyand since 1970, NJWCSwhere she served as Presi-dent 1992-93. She was fea-tured in Who’s Who in Ameri-can Art, and included inSplash 3 (see right) and Best
of Watercolor: Painting Color. She painted land-scapes, still lifes and abstracts focusing on bigbold strokes and personal interpretation. Sheworked as an artist at an advertising agency andwas a high school art teacher.
CHARLES DEMUTH (1883 – 1935)-- American Modernist Painter by Art Klein
When searching for watercolor artists to inspire us, we certainly must includeCharles Demuth. Though plagued by illness all his life, he produced over a thou-sand works of art, including the well-known “My Egypt” which was inspired bygrain elevators in his hometown, Lancaster, PA. He did many pencil drawings,oil paintings and watercolors of anything and everything; landscapes, cityscapes,flowers, industrial buildings, acrobats, dancers, circus performers, people in allsorts of scenes, and scenes showing the changing of the seasons. His still-lifesare exquisite; unsurpassed in composition and use of color, shading, and whitespace. Duncan Phillips described Demuth as “A virtuoso with watercolor of themost delicious clarity and the subtlest nuance of pearly tones….” In his book onDemuth, Alvord Eiseman said “Demuth’s versatility as an artist, his ability to de-velop his own unique style and leave behind Fauvism, Synchronism, Futurism,and the other new waves of the pre-war years, are unexcelled. It is as easy toidentify a Demuth painting as it is to distinguish an O’Keefe, a Martin, or a Dove,but there is a far greater variety and sense of experimentation in the Lancastri-an.” In his “Bowl of Oranges,” 1925, the intense color contrast of the blue rococobackground with the brilliant oranges achieves and emulates the painting stylethat Demuth ascribed to Georgia O’Keefe. (from Eiseman’s “Charles Demuth”)
Demuth was born in Lancaster, PA and lived most of his life there. Most ofhis finished paintings were done in his small 2nd floor studio in his Lancasterhome, overlooking the garden. His mother’s garden was the inspiration for manyof his paintings. It is surprising that he was able to travel as much as he did as ayoung man, because his health was very fragile. At the age of four, he suffered ahip injury, probably caused by a fall from his father’s arms, which rendered himpermanently lame. As an adult, he suffered from severe diabetes. And yet, as a young man, he travelled to Paris anumber of times where he was part of the avante garde scene. From 1900-10 Charles studied at the Drexel Instituteof Art in Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts where his instructors included Thomas Anschutzand William Merritt Chase, who had been students of Thomas Eakins. His first major exhibit was at the Pennsylva-nia Academy’s annual watercolor show in 1912. In 1913, he took his 3rd and most important trip to Europe, andjoined the Academie Moderne in Paris. When he returned from this trip, he realized that his favorite medium waswatercolor. Demuth around this time inherited his father’s estate, which made him financially independent for therest of his life and gave him the freedom to devote himself fully to painting.
He visited Bermuda in 1916-17 with Marsden Hartley, Albert Gleizes, and Louis Bouche and became stronglyinfluenced by Cubism. In 1919-21 he made his last trip to Europe. Due to health problems he was hospitalized brief-ly in France and returned to America, convalescing in Morristown New Jersey at Dr Allen’s Sanatorium. Over thenext few years, Demuth won many prizes for his watercolor paintings. His work was included in Stieglitz’s IntimateGallery when it opened in NYC in 1925. Stieglitz’s select group of American artists included Georgia O’Keefe, Ar-thur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Demuth, and photographer Paul Strand. In the late 1920s, Demuth creat-ed his well-known poster-portraits, to honor his friends O’Keefe, Arthur Dove, Charles Duncan, Marsden Hartley,John Marin, and writers Gertrude Stein, Eugene O’Neill, and Wallace Stevens. His work was included in a show atMOMA (American Painting& Sculpture 1862-1932) in 1932, and also a show at the Whitney in 1933. In 1934, hiswork was included in the “19th International Biennial Art Exhibition” at Venice, Italy and in “Five Americans” at theSmith College Museum of Art.
Demuth was in a very fragile state of health for the last 5 years of his life, and for much of that time, his mothertook care of him at his Lancaster home. He was only 52 whenhe died, but he was already acclaimed for his cubist-derivedpaintings of American cityscapes as well as his sensuous, richlycolored watercolors of still-lifes and figure groups (from Eiseman).
For anyone interested in watercolor painting, his work is timeless and offerstremendous inspiration. You can check out “CHARLES DEMUTH” by AlvordL. Eiseman, Watson-Guptill Publications, NYC, 1982. It is filled with excellentreproductions of his work, as well as a definitive biography of the artist. Aneven better way to appreciate the virtuosity of Demuth would be to visit hisstudio and home, now a museum: 120 E. King St, Lancaster, PA. Hours: Tuesday,10 a.m. – 4 p.m. (see the museum website).
New Jersey Water Color Society 2014 CalendarPlease check our web site @ www.njwcs.org for current show dates, prospectuses, artists’ art work and a wonderfulphoto gallery of past events.June 28th from 11-2 PM NJWCS 2014 Annual Meeting /LuncheonMonmouth Beach Cultural Center 128 Ocean Avenue Monmouth Beach, NJ 07750Elected Members and Associates are invited to attend the Annual Meeting and Luncheon.
June 11-28 2014 Elected Members’ Show Monmouth Beach Cultural CenterMonmouth Beach Cultural Center 128 Ocean Avenue Monmouth Beach Hrs: Wed-Sat 10-2The Annual Members’ show is open to all NJWCS Elected Members. In order to present all cash awardsthere will be a $15.00 entry fee. Details will be provided in April 2014.
Receiving: Wednesday June 11th from 10:30–Noon.Pick-up immediately following the Annual Meeting/Luncheon on June 28th at 2PM.
Oct 1-25 NJWCS 72nd Annual Open Juried ExhibitionMiddletown Arts Center, Middletown, NJReceiving: Saturday September 27th 10-12Reception and pick-up of Accepted Paintings:
Saturday October 25th 2-4 PM/4-5PM
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Exhibitions to be aware of /Slides-Jpegs Due (all tentative, not yet announced)July 2014 Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Open Juried Show for Women www.clwac.org
see Calendar of Events for prospectus.July –Aug 2014 Audubon Artists, Salmagundi Club, NYC September 2013 www.audubonartists.org/July 2014 North East Watercolor Society (Kent Ct) October 2013 www.northeastws.com/July 2014 Pennsylvania Watercolor Society West Chester Art Assn September-October www.pwswc.com/Aug 2014 American Artists Professional League Grand National Exhibition Salmagundi Club, NYC phone/Fax:
