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Society-Ciub^SANTA FE NEW MEXICANDOROTHY JAKE LAJISOH, Editor •Caroline Rohland Thinks Her Painting and Paints Her ThinkingSouth Carolina Scenes and Porlrails Abound in Current Museum ExhibitCwxoline Gpcare Rohland palnU like a woman. She «ay» the doe* and she thinks it's perfectly ail right for a woman lo paint like a woman and not, worrit out her life trying to paint like a m3n when maybe really she doesn't want to but thinks she has to and her paintings on exhibit at the Art Museum are delicate but tough of fiber.The long sentence Is the in Ur-rfc war's, however, because Mrs. Holland speaks toltly ar.d In short sentences anil only when she has something U say.She’4 not wordy In her painting either. She thinks aut each composition thoroughly before there** ary a sketch. Then there are countless trying* and changings and Improv logs until the thoughtbreds* which gives or.« to think.Then there are the three park scenes: One Nice, two Central Park. The scene in nice Ls as French as merhige glace with the uniformed nurse, the widow In her weeds, the bare legged children. Mu. Rohland started Ihls painting after the list war, finished It Just recently, The Central Park scenes are of the monkey cage and the children’s balblng comer. The monkey scene was one of the highlights of Fiesta show; the children so natural! the monkeys so real you can almost smell them.This artist doesn’t whip Into « painting but she gives you something to keep with every stroke of Jier brush.thoughts are distilled into a tomposWon that has unity and tells you what the artist wants to say.Many of I he canvasses In the show are scenes and portraits done In Beaufort, S.C., where Mrs. Rohland and her husband. Paul, had an old house the windows ct which overlooked a colorful section. There air handsome portraits of two young Negro B^ls. one an oil, the other kCartel. In the center of the alcove i the portrait of a tall, graceful, noble-faced Negro woman seeding In the fields. Tnere is another Southern scene called Thorough-
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