THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, April 12, 1963-15
Israel's Water Supply Expanded
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One of the most important uses of Israel Bond investment
dollars has been the broadening and dredging of the Jordan River
More water means more agricultural and industrial development
for Israel, and Israel Bond investments have played a vital role
in the creation of the Yarkon River Irrigation System and the
National Water Scheme, which bring water from the north to
new agricultural settlements.
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Hebrew Themes on Enamel
By HENRY W. LEVY
How come Valiquette Ann Ger-
trude Morrison Rundle is exhibiting
her enamels at the Theodor Herzl
Art Gallery in New York?
It's a good question, one that's
partially answered by the theme
of her exhibit: "Enamels on
Hebrew Themes."
Why is this daughter of a Scot-
tish Prebyterian father and a
Basque mother, who studied in
Catholic convents ; doing enamels
on Jewish themes? That's a good
story, which will unfold here.
Valiquette, - for that is her pro-
fessional name, tells a story that
certainly makes her an outstand-
ing ecumenicist. Reared a Chris-
tian, she now considers herself
more a Buddhist than a Christian,
a person who has to prove herself
by her behavior.
Married to Walter Rundle, ex-
foreign correspondent who is now
on the foreign desk of Newsweek,
she has lived with him on assign-
ments in Germany, China and
throughout Europe. While he was
a UPI war correspondent, she
studied for three years in Mexico
with Diego Rivera. She also studied
art in pre-war Munich as an ex-
change student at the famous
Heyman's Schule, and before that
at the Art Institute in Chicago.
During her years abroad, she
adopted two stranded young chil-
dren, an Austrian girl now 22 and
a Lithuanian boy, now 29.
Valiquette in the past 10 years
has given herself entirely to
enamels, foregoing her first love,
painting. With a studio workshop
at 153 E. 26th St. in New York,
her work ranges from the typical
enamels — bowls, buttons, small
boxes and ash trays—to large pic-
torial art, pieces such as portraits,
figures, heads and even nudes.
There are only about 10 major
enamelists in the United States,
and of these only two—Bates and
Winters—do the larger work.
In her exhibit at the Herzl Art
Gallery, Valiquette showed a
number of magnificent Jewish por-
traits—a whole group of rabbinical
figures, a Patriarch, a Warsaw
refugee, Sara, an Old Man Dozing
and a Yemenite Woman.
I was curious as to how she first
became interested in doing Jewish
themes. The answer was simple:
"A dealer, who handled some of
my work, _ asked me to do a wall
enamel on a 'Fora theme."
Valiquette has learned quite a
bit about Jews and Jewish subjects,
both by personal observation and
reading, just _ as she has learned
about Chinese, Spanish, Mexican
and the other ethnic types in which
she has specialized. In fact, she
is very interested in going to
Israel where there is a pogsibility
of an exhibit of her works in Haifa
at the Zyfrir Gallery.
Passover
Greetiogs.
Nalvador Dali-Painter of Israel's story
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright 1968, JTA Inc.)
When Ben-Gurion first visited
the United States, the Spanish
painter, Salvador Dali, traveled
to Kennedy airport to meet him
on his arrival. The two shook
hands and then B-G began to
wonder at the curious way Dali
was looking at him.
Finally Dali explained. "Really,
Mr. Ben-Gurion, I came here for
a special purpose."
"Yes," said Ben-Gurion, "what
is it?"
"To look at your eyes."
Dali was engaged in painting
a picture of the great event of
1948 when Israel proclaimed its
independence.
It is one of a series of 25 litho-
graphs, which he has been paint-
ing for two years, telling the story
of aliya or the rebirth of Israel.
The premier world exhibit will
be held April 1 at the Gallery of
Modern Art.
The Dali paintings of Israel will
cost more than $100. The album
of 25 lithographs with an apprecia-
tive preface by Ben-Gurion, are
priced at $400 a copy. If you can't
pay that much, you can see the
paintings at the exhibit by buying
a $1,000 Israel Bond. That is the
price of admission.
Ben-Gurion was not too well
versed in modern painting for a
long time. Mani Katz once gave
him a couple of paintings. Said
B-G: "Mani, I couldn't understand
Plato in Greek. I studied and
now I understand. I couldn't under-
stand Don Quixote but I studied
Spanish and now I understand,
but your paintings. I study and
study and can't understand."
No doubt since then B G has
studied Dali and now understands
him.
Both Dali and B-G have one
-thing in common — they have
independent minds.
Once Dali saw something in a
Fifth Avenue store window that
he didn't like. He hurled a stone
at it through the window. The
incident might lead one to think
that Dali is a man of violence,
but those who know him tell me
he is quite orderly and generally
leads a disciplined life. Dali
spends six months in New York
and six months in Europe yearly.
One time, he was one of a
party which entered a restaurant
and sat in the rear. The waiter
warned that one of the seats was
broken, a piece of the seat stick-
ing out. Dali insisted on sitting
on the seat, so he could get,
as he described it, "a better
appreciation of the wonderful
phenomenon of sitting."
I have noticed that folks are
generally about as happy as they
have made up their minds to be.
—Abraham Lincoln.
¶appy gassover to all
"Thou inthy mercy
hast led forth the peo-
ple which thou hast
redeemed; thou hast
guided them in thy
strength unto thy holy
habitation."
Air. and Mrs. Abe Kasle
and Family
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