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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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Low pressure areas must inevitably follow high excitement but they are not necessarily comfortable periods. For awhile I thought I was through painting for good and all, as I occasionally will. I was afraid I would never come into possession of another thought. It was but several weeks however, before ideals began percolating busily again. Then if it had not been for my second exhibit and the interim at Rochester, I should have been on the verge of another painting boom. Five, ten, fifteen and even twenty canvases began crowding and elbowing each other in my mind yelling for attention and screaming to be done. When I got into this kind of a state usually no composition can be made to wait but all must try to come out at once. The mood then, is unpredictable and is subject to change without warning. Even depression could descend upon my soul, but ordinarily my fingers are too feverish and my mind too lively for anything except more and more canvases being compiled under a nervous brush. At this juncture in the narrative, even before the first exhibit was off the walls in New York the Argent Gallery requested another show. A second show in January! I was too tempted to resist. My premiere had been ails - an immensely huge hanging of fourty-four canvases mostly rather smalls. The follow-up we decided was to be a portrayal of timely material on the subject, "Travel Sketches - Faces and Places in the news." It was to be primarily a black and whit exhibit of brush drawings together with a few indicators for accent and contrast. This exhibition was to be open to the public from January 6 to the 18. The show rather complimented the Annual Exhibition of the National Association of Women Artists, of which I am a member, and which opened to the same date. Into this picture crept a definite plan
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Low pressure areas must inevitably follow high excitement but they are not necessarily comfortable periods. For awhile I thought I was through painting for good and all, as I occasionally will. I was afraid I would never come into possession of another thought. It was but several weeks however, before ideals began percolating busily again. Then if it had not been for my second exhibit and the interim at Rochester, I should have been on the verge of another painting boom. Five, ten, fifteen and even twenty canvases began crowding and elbowing each other in my mind yelling for attention and screaming to be done. When I got into this kind of a state usually no composition can be made to wait but all must try to come out at once. The mood then, is unpredictable and is subject to change without warning. Even depression could descend upon my soul, but ordinarily my fingers are too feverish and my mind too lively for anything except more and more canvases being compiled under a nervous brush. At this juncture in the narrative, even before the first exhibit was off the walls in New York the Argent Gallery requested another show. A second show in January! I was too tempted to resist. My premiere had been ails - an immensely huge hanging of fourty-four canvases mostly rather smalls. The follow-up we decided was to be a portrayal of timely material on the subject, "Travel Sketches - Faces and Places in the news." It was to be primarily a black and whit exhibit of brush drawings together with a few indicators for accent and contrast. This exhibition was to be open to the public from January 6 to the 18. The show rather complimented the Annual Exhibition of the National Association of Women Artists, of which I am a member, and which opened to the same date. Into this picture crept a definite plan
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