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April 12, 1995
Lodge 17, New Tabor Players Claim Straight Dominoes rown First Place winners in the SPJST Statewide Straight Domino Tournament held at Lodge 29, Taylor were Donnie Paul and Gary Zwernemann of Lodge 17, New Tabor. Other winners photos and story on page 8.
Players from Lodge 29, Taylor won the team trophy for fielding the most players during the SPJST Straight Dominoes tournament. Pictured, from left, front, are Jerry Wayne Tallas and Johnnie Zak. Second row: Lydia Jansen, Frances Tallas, Dorothy Markert, Jerry Tallas, and Elick Zak. Back row: Homer Sakewitz, Lillian Sakewitz, Jimmie Mohel, Bill Havel, Viola Moehunke, Perry Walters, Nita Horn, and Edmund Tate.
Lodge 154, Fort Worth member captures spotlight
Henrietta Milan: Making a Good Impression by John Paschal (Editor's Note: The following article appeared, in its entirety in AURA of Dallas/Fort Worth magazine, a Metroplex living! lifestyle publication. Thanks to Sister Mary Pavey, reporter for Lodge 154, Fort Worth for sharing Sister Milan's colorful story with Vestnik readers.) Henrietta Milan, a member of Lodge 154, Fort Worth, is an artist. She loves her work and it shows .. "A lot of the times I'm painting, just painting away," says the Fort Worth artist one bright autumn afternoon, surrounded by bright paintings that are understandable indeed, "and all of a sudden I notice that it's forming and it's coming up good, and I have this big smile on my face. I think, 'Why am I grinning?'" Why? Because Milan paints pictures of flowers and gardens and children. They are sunny pictures, warm, and they inspire an equally sunny disposition in their creator and their audience. While darker artists paint muted still lifes of rotted apples as a metaphor for their angst, Milan, bless her, looks directly at the bright side of life. "I like color," she says, "and I like things that make you feel good." Milan's work, by nature, is nature: vased flowers next to a backyard wicker
Henrietta Milan's paintings capture the warmth of their creator. Pictured above is a painting entitled "Tapestry of Life," one of two works created and donated by Sister Milan in support of the Doris Kupferle Breast Center's 1995 fund-raising drive. chair in the painting Pleasures of an Afternoon; swans on a pond in Quiet Contentment; a child amid flowers in Playing in the Pond. Milan is a modernday impressionist who uses a palette knife and oils to render momentary scenes of nature into permanent framed accounts of her impressions of them. The scenes are nature's whims, not its poses,
the captivity of the fugitive reality's fleeting productions. Symbolism? Deeper meaning? Forget it, art snobs. She paints pretty pictures. "They're colorful, they're happy," she says, "and they seem to be a good seller." Indeed, the color of money is prominent on Milan's existential palette now.
Her prices have increased 15 percent each of the past few years, and her large oils suddenly command as much as $15,000. Such a warm public reception is considerably better than that of her artistic antecedents, the original Impressionists, who upon their initial exhibition at Paris in 1874 inspired venerable landscape painter Joseph Vincent to exclaim, "I'll get a stroke from it, for sure!" The only strokes now are to Milan's self-esteem. At one recent gallery show, 80 percent of her works sold before the show's official opening. Twelve of her paintings are available nationally in prints and selling by the hundreds. Her works hang in galleries from Naples, Florida, to Santa Barbara, California. Collectors include author Robert Ludlum, NBA player Danny Ainge, former Dallas Mayor Bob Folsom and former Miss U.S.A. Christy Fichtner. Milan's made a good impression. The formula is paint-by-numbers simple, even if the work is not. "The paintings are always a comfortable scene," says the blonde, energetic Milan, standing among several paintings in her family's Milan Gallery in downtown Fort Worth. "They're something that you feel very relaxed in and enjoy looking at, to where you almost feel like you're there. It brings the outside in." (Continued on page five.)