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SUNDAY AMERICAN STATESMAN, AUSTIN, TEXAS BY D. BARRETT TANNER Written for AmericanS? For the month of September, the Texas Fine Arts Association is exhibiting at Laguna Gloria a collection of watercolors, charcoal and gauche drawings by Kindred McLeary, who died in May of this year. This artist was well known in Austin, where, as a student, he achieved distinction in many fields, especially in that of designing and executing stage sets for University theatricals. Later, after study abroad, he taught design in the De partment of Architecture. For some years before his death, McLeary was a member of the faculty of Carnegie Institute of Technology, at Pittsburgh. The exhibit not only illustrates his knowledge of architectural forms, but proves that a study of such forms aided him in the appreciation of structure. Whether painting houses, trees, bridges, boats, or a still life, this artist displays architectural organization with a fine sense of scale, and yet he did not allow the drafting room, with its meticulous drawing, to inhibit his free designing. In a few instances, McLeary even achieved pattern emancipated from form, and thus he joined the modern abstract school. No doubt it was this ability to combine abstraction in pattern with almost realistic drawing that brought about McLeary’s success as a decorative designer. Never did he paint so that the average intelligent and sensitive person could not recognize the essence he was abstracting out of his subject. His colors, generally cool and clear, sometimes are intense and vibrant, but never muddy. The difficult medium of watercolor was his own. The 27 watercolors and four charcoal and gauche drawings were executed in Pennsylvania and France. Kindred McLeary was born at Columbus, Texas, and it is his surviving family there who has loaned these 32 examples of his appreciation of the forms, lines and colors he loved during his life.
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Austin Sunday American Statesman
Austin, Texas, US
Sun, Sep 11, 1949
Page 33
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