Word: alcalay
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...current exhibit at the Ward Nasse Gallery (118 Newbury St.) should be of interest to the Harvard community, for it shows the recent drawings of Albert Alcalay, instructor in Drawing at the Carpenter Center. The story of this artist's success seems almost story-bookish. Imprisoned in 1941 for being a Yugoslavian Jew, he talked his way out of one concentration camp by persuading a Nazi colonel that his artistic future should not be destroyed. Recapture, in another camp, he used his abilities to forge false documents and again he escaped. After the liberation, he made his way to Rome...
...Alcalay was admitted to this country in 1951 under the Truman Bill. Equipped only with his talent and humor, he has become one of Boston's leading artists and has had successful shows also in Washington and New York. Alcalay's most recent works are ink drawings on rice paper, a painstaking medium in which he shows his ability as a draftsman...