Art: Art in New York: Nov. 6, 1964

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UPTOWN

KARL KNATHS—Rosenberg, 20 East 79th.

No surprises for those who are familiar with Knath's Cape Cod scenery—the lilacs in his backyard, deer feeding in the pines, light-splashed docks and shacks. What is perennially surprising, though, is the freshness that pours through his black-framed mosaic hues. Through Nov. 7.

JAMES HARVEY—Graham, 1014 Madison Ave. at 78th. Harvey, an abstract expressionist, is also a commercial artist, and he took a dim view of Pop Painter Andy Warhol's Brillo-box copies. Harvey, after all, had designed the original. Harvey's new paintings consist of whirling wheels of color that hang dizzily even from the ceiling. They look as though they would be hard to copy. Through Nov. 28.

EMILE NOLDE and ERNST KIRCHNER—Auslander, 929 Madison Ave. at 74th. For anyone who missed the Museum of Modern Art's Nolde retrospective last year, this small sampling (some 20 works) offers another look at his brooding landscapes and blazing watercolors. A fellow German expressionist, Ernst Kirchner, is seen in six works. Through Nov. 28.

DAVID HAYES—Willard, 29 East 72nd. A raft of first-rate sculpture crowds the galleries this week; at least 13 shows are worth a prolonged look.* David Hayes's is one. In his second New York exhibition, he proves convincingly that, at 33, he belongs in the top rank of important young sculptors. Hayes, an American, has a studio outside Paris, where he hammers and welds forged steel into mat-black shapes of brute strength. His works are small but weighty, simple but bursting with power. His Seated Beast, with only two legs, has a yowling, cavernous mouth for a head, and his armless Gladiator stares blindly from two huge orbital cavities.

Through Nov. 21.

PETER CHINNI—Marks, 19 East 71st.

New Yorker Peter Chinni, 36, is a more abstract sculptor than Hayes, but a walk around his Morning gives the feeling of a slumbering world stirring and stretching just before dawn. Awakening Mountain II, an 8-ft. bronze, catches light on flat planes and hides shadows in deep crevices. Forty-five pieces in silver and bronze.

Through Nov. 28.

PABLO PICASSO—Griffin, 611 Madison Ave. at 58th. Fifty Picasso posters, many created for summer expositions in the little pottery town of Vallauris, France, near where he lives, include his many variations of toros, a spring bouquet sketched for U.C.L.A., and some of his wife Jacqueline. At Hahn, 960 Madison Ave. at 75th, are 15 paintings of another woman in his life, Dora Maar. The portraits run through Nov. 14, the posters through Nov. 21.

MIDTOWN

THEA EKSTRÖM—Viviano, 42 East 57th.

A gypsy and former nightclub performer, Thea Ekström is also well known as an artist in her native Sweden, and her works are in the collections of French Prime Minister Georges Pompidou and Painter Jean Dubuffet. This is New York's first chance to inspect her unusual talent. In silverpoint on oil-and-canvas, she draws tiny signs and symbols around the edges of lonely landscapes that are guarded by a pale sun and filled with little animals, intertwining snakes, and under the earth's surface, a strange, subterranean life.

Through Nov. 28.