Art: Gypsy John

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Most of John's portraits on exhibition last week shared a quality that went beyond his sharp eye and skilled, sensitive hand. They had warmth. Even the portrait of Governor Fuller, who was hardly John's sort, showed that the artist's heart, as well as his art, had been called into play. In his autobiography, the old man, looking back, decides that "Love is a vagrant and when we revisit the tents, we find the gypsies gone and nothing left of them but a few rags and the black circles of their fires." John's open-eyed love for his; fellow man illumines the best of his portraits; their fires still glow.