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...countries can boast even that much female talent. Nevertheless, with the increasing leisure of American womanhood and the enticement of painting as a hobby, women have an invitation to become popular artists. Grandma Moses has proved it possible, on a grand scale. And now Cape Cod's Alice Stallknecht, a spry, sturdy widow of 77, is seconding the nomination...
Easterner Stallknecht has had her greatest success in the West, with a traveling show this summer that went to Colorado Springs, Pasadena, San Diego and San Francisco. In the exhibition catalogue, Art Historian Lloyd Goodrich of Manhattan's Whitney Museum went full out for Stallknecht's work, describing her as "a 'natural'; she puts things down on canvas with unhesitating directness, as if reality guided her brush. But her realism is never merely photographic. Sometimes her patterns take on an expressionistic freedom, with pronounced rhythms, suggesting Van Gogh-or, nearer home, Marsden Hartley. But such parallels...
Orchids to Alice Stallknecht Wight for her splendid portrayal of Cape Cod life in her portrait The Last Supper [TIME, Aug. 5]. Looks like a bad night for sailors to visit Chatham's First Congregational Church on Wednesday night. Speaking of sailors, since when have Coast Guard warrant boatswains been exemplified with the title of captain? My only objection. Suggest you read up on naval terms. Would it be possible for the painter to explain the reason for the honor so nobly bestowed upon the Coast Guard? Or does she try to convey to the looking public that members...
...Alice Stallknecht Wight of Chatham, Mass. is an artist who knows how to get her unskilled, matter-of-fact portraits into newspaper headlines. She paints her Cape Cod neighbors into a Biblical subject, gives the mural to Chatham's First Congregational Church which was founded in 1696 by a fisherman. Three years ago she did it with Christ Preaching to the Multitude, with a beardless, sneering Portuguese fisherman for Christ (TIME, Aug. 15, 1932). Last week she made more headlines when she gave First Congregational a companion piece called The Last Supper...
Critics found Artist Stallknecht's mural raw, bold, naive, much like the works she exhibited in Manhattan's Ferargil galleries last May. Critics also recalled that modernized divinities are nothing new; Jacob Epstein's Christ was much discussed for his negroid appearance. Nor are real faces in religious pictures rare; many an Italian and Flemish noble and magnifico got himself and his offspring into a "Holy Family...