Word: siegling
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...Katims contingent dined on roast moose, reindeer, and a mixture of seal oil, caribou fat, berries and sugar known as agutuk, or Eskimo ice cream. Then, at the airport, they were delayed for three hours while their plane's engines were warmed back to life. Concertmaster Henry Siegl took out his violin. While Katims conducted with a swizzle stick, Siegl played an impromptu recital of pop songs, Irish jigs and gypsy music...
...World Upside-Down." In this woodcut, a small boy stands with his hands wrapped around his ankles, his head and shoulders dangling upside-down between his wide-spread legs, his eyes carefully studying the world in inverted perspective. This seems to be exactly the sort of world Miss Siegl attempts to reveal in the rest of her woodcuts, and she is throughly successful...
...fantastic sphere of a child's imagination--a world upside-down--offers ample material for an artistic enterprise but is rather difficult to make appealing to an adult mind. Miss Siegl's triumph is to achieve this feat with highly pleasing results...
Besides being a master of romantic intrigue, Miss Siegl is also a talented draftsman and has made excellent use of color. She applies very subtle shadings against heavy black lines and almost never do her colors become cluttered...
With the more than reasonable prices which accompany them, the Siegl woodcuts strongly suggest a trip to Mr. Schuster's gallery. To those who have been suggesting that the woodcut is a dying genre, Helen Siegl's work is a refreshing rebuttal...