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February 29, 1980 - Image 53

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1980-02-29

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40—BUSINESS CARDS

Custom painting &
wallpapering

13 yrs. experience.

ADEN ZATKOFF

Free Estimates
Calf after 3:30

40—BUSINESS CARDS

David's Plastering
& Dry Wall

557-1338

PAINTING

C.C. KIRBY CONST.

papering,
wall paper removing. Free esti-
mates. References. Work

Brick, block, stone.

guaranteed. Call anytime.

Bill Paschal
Painting Service

535-2609 or 535-0178

No job too small, no price too big.

KITCHEN cabinets &
woodwork refinished. An-
tiquing, staining. Custom
interior painting. Reason-
able. References.

967-1114

RESIDENTIAL WINDOW CLEANING

Wall washing & gutter
cleaning.
Quality Service
Free Estimates

547-2418

CARPENTRY

• Rec Rooms
• Basement Floors Tiled
• Suspended ceilings
installed
• Stucco
• Misc. Repairs
• Custom Formica Work
References
Very Reasonable

CALL RON
661-4576

eves.

METRO WINDOW
CLEANING AND
HOME CARE

Experts on aluminum storms.
carpet, floor, furniture cleaning.
Wall washing, custom painting,
interior-exterior.
541-0278

TARNOW

BUILDING SPECIALTIES

478-9060

FOR SALES & SERVICE

INCOME TAX

Residential & Commercial



Exterior

Bathroom &
kitchen remodeling.

No job too small
Specializing in
plumbing repairs.

FRIEDMAN BLDG. CO.

363-9714

GARAGE DOOR
OPENERS AND
GARAGE DOORS

"A"PLUS WALLPAPER REMOVING

PAINTING

237-0092

Free Estimates
Licensed

566-1547
ACTIVE PLUMBING &

WATER TREATMENT

Reasonable Rates
Sump Pumps - Disposals
Sewer Cleaning
Licensed
Insured

661-0255

887-7164

CALLIGRAPHY

by SUSIE
Invitations, poems, an-
nouncements or•anything
special.

Prepared quickly & rea-
sonably. Your home or
mine. Will also handle
small business.

Call 474-3629

FURNITURE REPAIR
& REFINISHING
Complete bedroom &
dining room sets
Chair re-glueing
Caning & Rushing

M & S ACCOUNTING

& TAX SERVICE

548-3527

K. KENT

ROOFING

Free Estimates

474-8953

Hot Tar - Shingles

Re-coat - Repair - Replace

Siding - Trim - Gutters

EMERGENCY

546-0050

CALL THE
FURNITURE DOCTOR

Licensed - Bonded - Insured

TELEVISION
SERVICE

All work guaranteed
Licensed
Very Reasonable

Call HAROLD COHEN

968-7482







Put your mind at Rest,
Shoot for the Best.

A NICE JEWISH BOY
LIKE ME

Interior

Texturing of Walls. Repairs

559.7751

Interior,. exterior, wall

40—BUSINESS CARDS

Any Furniture Repair
Re-upholstering
Refinishing
Chair Caning
Our Speciality is
is repairing, reglueing &
re-upholstering
dining room chairs

585-3479

NEED SIGNS?
CALL APEX

Any Kind.

12 yrs. experience.

841-3435

CALL MARV KAY

24 hours

Friday, February 29, 19130 53

40—BUSINESS CARDS

40—BUSINESS CARDS

FEINBERG
CARPET SERVICE

Seams and tears or re-
place the stairs. Old and
new carpet installation or
cal/ for an interesting esti-
mate for purchases of new
carpet.
Call GARY

398-3149

JULIUS ROSS

841-3164

COMPLETE remodeling,
alterations, repair, kitch-
en, den, basement, family
room. Reasonable.

354-6473

after 4

Removal of all types of
Wallpaper

MOVING CO., INC.

Custom work, household mov-
ing. offices, packing, piano and
appliances. Local and State of

531-7555

MOVING?
YOUNG MEN

(By Machine)

WELLS

366 - 5322

Call before 9 a.m. or after 1p.m.

REUBEN
CUSTOM
PAINTING

589-0682

REFRIGERATION

INTERIOR-EXTERIOR

HEATING REPAIR

Free Estimates

Only
Bob Mendelson

541-5720

559-2585

PETER FRIEDMAN

CHUCK'S
PAINTING SERVICE

EXPERT SEWER CLEANER

Patch Plastering
10 years experience.
Reasonable
Work guraantee

SUMP PUMP INSTALLER

JOAB'S PLUMBING

AZIR PAINTING &
DECORATING

354-4364

292-3885

Remodeling Repairs

Sewer Cleaning

Licensed — Insured

422 3764

-

PETER FRIEDMAN

Licensed Master Plumber

Emergency Service Work.
Sewer cleaning, garbage dis-
posal, installation work. Reason-
able rates_
24 hour service.

354 - 4364

FRANK'S WATERPROOFING

Free Estimates. Insured.
Serving tri-county area.

WALL WASHING

588-1228

-

357-2674

PAPER HANGING
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Insured

Insured

Reputable and Licensed

937 8374

TED'S
WALLPAPER REMOVING

356-0499

With furniture van will move you
expertly at economy rates.

TOBIAS

Plastering - Stucco - Texturing.
Specializing in plaster R. drywall
repairs. water damage.

Wet. damp. leaky basements
made dry. Guaranteed 18 yea-rs.
Experienced — lowest price.

Michigan.

ARNOLD GOLDIN

Sump Pumps

851-2550

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Interior-Exterior
Free Estimates
Reasonable Rates

851-2118

Call 477-4786

559-7398

MICHAEL BLACK
For the finest
in.custom
wallpaper hanging

352-1923

53—ENTERTAINMENT

SINGING guitarist, violinist plus
Disco tapes. 398-2462.

Israel Lashes
Retarded Group

JERUSALEM — The Is-
rael Labor and Social
Ministry recently denied a
report that children would
be discharged from homes
for the retarded and casti-
gated AKIM, the voluntary
organization for aiding re-
tarded children, for initiat-
ing the scare.

Hundreds of angry par-
ents blocked traffic in Tel
Aviv after receiving letters
from AKIM saying that
their children would be sent
home if the freeze on new
personnel for the homes was
not lifted.

The Work of Notable Artist Chaim Gross Depicted in New Volume

Unquestionably among

the most populiti of Ameri-

can artists, Chaim Gross
commands interest wher-
ever there is anything relat-
ing to art.
His works chiseled in
stone, cast in bronze, are
among the most notable in
museums everywhere.
He is equally famous for
his watercolors and draw-
ings and the new Harry N.
Abrams published volume
is a notable work that will
fascinate art lovers. It will
enchant professionals while
encouraging a new interest
among those gathering art
collections to enhance their
homes.
It is especially appro-
priate that the text for
"Chaim Gross
Watercolors and Draw-
ings" should have been
written by an eminent
critic, the late Alfred
Werner.
It is as a draftsman that
Gross emerges in this un-
usually impressive work
and its collection of art
works by a great artist. His
earliest as well as most re-
cent drawings- are included
in this volume.

There are 220 illustra-
tions in this large book, 26
in color.
Gross was born in East
Austria in 1904 the 10th
child of a lumber merchant.
During the First World
War, the family fled the
reign of terror. His family
settled in Budapest, where
in 1919 he began drawing
while earning his livelihood
doing odd jobs. In a competi-
tion he won a scholarship to
an art school and his career
began at that time.
He came to the United
States in 1921 and it was
in the Educational Al-
liance Art School that he
advanced in his ap-
proach to a career of
achievement and fame.

Alfred Werner's skillful
description of the Gross
works and his analyses of
the artist's creative labors
mark significance for the
eminent artist's role in
many aspects of art creativ-
ity.
Werner points out that at
the outset Gross did not
have any specific Jewish
interests. Then, he points
out:

"But in the 1950s, thrilled
by what he saw in the newly
founded state of Israel,
Gross developed a taste for
the unusual phenomena of
bearded Hasidim whirling
around in their ecstatic
dances, and for a variety of
Jewish religious subjects. In
1953 he showed, at New
York's Jewish Museum,
along with some sculptures,
40 watercolors painted in
Israel. And in 1968 he ac-
cepted a commission to
create color lithographs for
a portfolio of watercolors
entitled 'The Jewish Holi-
days.' "
The Abrams volume in-
cludes a number of reprod-
uctions of Gross' Jewish
themes, notably the
Hasidic.
evaluative
Werner's
comments on Gross describe
the artist and evaluate him,
in part:
"... Gross is a cheerful,
optimistic family man
with an overflowing love
of life, who communi-
cates his bubbling
enthusiasm to everyone
who encounters the work
or the worker. If one be-
lieves — as this writer

does — that it is the func-
tion of art to serve as a
bridge between the
creator and his public,
then the oeuvre of Gross
admirably makes it
possible to share with
him all the delights of
human existence, all the
pleasure that tender,
gentle and sensuous man
has felt.
"Thus, unquestionably,
Gross owes his popularity to
a large extent to the fact
that he has, more or less,
concentrated on subject
matter that is pleasant and
within the mental grasp of
nearly everyone.
"But he is not loved only
by people who like 'pretty'
pictures ( or 'pretty'
sculptures, for that matter).
Those who have written
about him include cognos-
centi who would not have
taken notice of him had he
confined himself to the
making of cheerful two- or
three-dimensional illustra-
tions.
"Drawings have been
called the exposed nerve of
art. The stress here is on
sensitivity: in the perfect

control of pencil, pen or
brush; in keeping the proper
balance between freedom
and control; in the juxtapos-
ition of light and dark in an
area — sensitivity, in short,
that almost always enables
this artist to record a fact or
explore an idea in an emo-
tional, rather than a math-

ematically accurate, man-
ner.
"In fact, Gross's art is
diametrically opposed to the
coldness and impersonality
manifest in much recent
art. Intellectual rigidity
and repression are not for
him."
—P.S.

,

CHAIM GROSS

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