Logos Bookstore’s Recommendations

By H. HARRIS HEALY, III, President, Logos Bookstore,
1575 York Avenue (between 83rd and 84th Sts.)
New York, NY 10028
(212) 517-7292, Fax (212) 517-7197

If you have not been by Logos recently, you should be. Displayed in the windows are some beautiful full-scale paintings by Judith Gwyn Brown, author- illustrator of Bless All Creatures Here Below, a lovely celebration of the blessing of the animals. She also has paintings and drawings in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Morgan Library and the Huntington Library as well as paintings and portraits in the private collections of Mrs. Charles Morgan, Julie Andrews, the actress and Mary Higgins Clark, the author.

Currently on display is the breathtaking ‘In The Studio: Summer.’ A red-haired mermaid like creature descends upon an upright canvas on which is painted a beautiful shell. In her left hand is a palate of paints, in her right hand is a paintbrush/wand like stick with long purplish, pinkish tresses. Underneath the easel are fish swimming around in a rich vegetal sea of green. The mermaid painter looks like she has just flown in through the mirror in the room.

In another window stands ‘The Bathers.’ Swimmers move through the green sea as if enclosed in an emerald jewel. They float above the wavy hair of three big facing right in the bottom of the picture. In the store, also by Judith Gwyn Brown is a picture of a mermaid contemplating her reflection in a mirror as she floats through a marsh. In all three pictures the soothing feeling of water is ever present.

Other artists displaying their works are Stephen Barnwell and Ruth Williams. Barnwell, who through his company Antarctica Arts has created a whole world, the republic of Antarctica with its own paper money and stories, has prints that range from Tolkienesque Middle Earth prints like ‘As Above, So Below’ with the sun hovering over a lush green tree in the above section while the moon lies below dark, ominous tree roots in the below section, ‘Sol’, a golden sunface above a rainbow arched above clouds, and ‘Luna,’ a crescent moon floating through a purple universe with dark clouds to prints of angels like ‘The Messenger’ and ‘Angel Of Growth,’ angelic, white apparitions in motion to a guardian angel print, ‘Amy’s Guardian’ that celebrates domestic tranquility.

Ruth Williams, who will have a big exhibit at the Marianne Williamson Center in Detroit next spring, emphasizes in her prints of angels, hearts and the Manhattan skyline fluid abstractions and mosaic-like effects in a multitude of colors producing a sense of soothing liquid movement. Don’t miss out on the excitement, come on up to Logos Bookstore, see the art for yourself and buy!

Transit to Logos: 4, 5 or 6 Lexington Ave. Subway to 86^th St. M15 Bus (First & Second Aves.), M86 Bus (86^th St.), M79 Bus (79^th St,), M31 Bus (York Ave.)

Upcoming Events at Logos

• Wednesday, August 1, 7 P.M.: KYTV Reading Group will discuss The Golden Bowl by Henry James
• Thursday, August 9, 3 P.M.: ChildrenÕs puppet show
• Thursday August 23, 3 P.M.: ChildrenÕs Puppet Show
• Wednesday, September 5, 7 P.M.: KYTV Reading Group will discuss White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• Tuesday, September 11, 7 P.M.: Debut of the Sirens Project, a series of readings and performances of works of women writers hosted by the writers themselves, every Tuesday evening until the end of October.

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