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...Dunbarton Gallery is a renovated basement, found beneath another art gallery on Newbury Street near Copley Square. Currently showing there is a two-man exhibition featuring the paintings of Robert Rutman and Jack Wickline. Mr. Rutman has four canvases on display, while Mr. Wickline has seven. But Mr. Rutman paints much larger than Mr. Wickline, so everyone is even...
...cursory glance around the walls reveals that Mr. Rutman has developed what can only be termed a very personal style. His first work, which is larger than any of us, is entitled "Strange Suns." Roughly speaking, "Strange Suns" is laid out like a five of spades. A metallic gold disc, about the size of a basketball, is painted in the center. Similarly, four more discs, three orange and one blue, are painted in the four corners. Silver-black oils cover the rest of the surface, stroked on radially with respect to the individual circles, applied to a thickness in direct...
...second canvas, labeled "The Three Spirits," consists, again, of basketballs, of the appropriate number, variously blue, orange, and gold, in the background of lava. Mr. Rutman's style has begun to catch...
...religious significance, it depicts three glowing gold crosses mounted on two tall brown planes, all encompassed in some sort of brownish-black color. And the last work, on a wall by itself, is a single lavender disc, lying in an exploding crater of gold. This is titled, in Mr. Rutman's simple taste, "Purple Host...
...months have now passed. None of the three has been able to find employment, for the taint of subversion is upon them despite the letter, which did not arrive until long after the case had left the public eye. Even Rutman's wife, a research assistant at the school, has been fired. Though there was no question of her loyalty, the scientist under whom she was working received a telephone call from the Public Health Service informing him that his Government funds would be suspended unless Mrs. Rutman were fired. Promptly...