Reformátusok Lapja, 1972 (72. évfolyam, 1-7. szám)
1972-04-01 / 4. szám
6 REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA training with modern concepts, Miss De Nagy enables the onlooker to find his own explanations without an interpreter and still have sufficient grounds in mind for expansive exploration. Many of her works, inspired as they are by the Bible, especially the New Testament, provide a new approach to age-old subjects through the use of symbols. Not reverting to the symbols used by previous centuries, Miss De Nagy turns toward twentieth century symbols used by science. Light, a power unlimited for modern science, becomes her dominant symbol. In the Scriptures, light denotes the presence of God, and in her paintings she fuses these two meanings. She also uses her subjects to depict life, the struggle and tragedy of modern man. Therefore, Miss De Nagy considers herself a “painter of human experience,” rather than a painter of religious art. She calls her art “symbolic realism” and refuses to place herself in any given school of painting. Supporting this position are her unique technique and interpretations, which are completely her own. Eva De Nagy, a Hungarian-born American artist, is the artist-daughter of an artist-father. She received much of her basic training from her father, the late Ernő De Nagy, and then continued her studies under Henry Van Hallen and Alfred Bastian, outstanding Belgian artists at the Academie Royal Des Beaux De Bruxelles, Belgium, where she was the recipient of several first prizes. Among her various awards she has received the Bronze Medal and a Grumbacher Award in New Jersey State Shows at Seton Hall University. She also won awards at the Morris County Art Association exhibit, the New Jersey State Medical Convention exhibits and at the American Art Festival at Nags Head, North Carolina. She maintains a studio in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and a summer studio in Provinceton, Massachusetts, where she also owns and directs the Eva De Nagy Gallery. From her Provincetown gallery and one-man shows, museum directors have selected her paintings to be included in such exhibitions as, “Cape Cod Artists,” which was arranged in the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama. This museum exhibit included the De Nagy painting: “Agony and Ecstasy.” Miss De Nagy has participated abroad and also in this country in numerous one-man and nationwide juried shows; among these are the Jersey City and Montclair Museums, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the United States Trust Company, Speer Library of Princeton Theological Seminary, Carnegie International Center, Seton Hall University, various libraries and at the National Arts Club Gallery. She exhibited with Morris County, Audubon, Knicher- bocker and Provincetown Art Associations, at the Painters and Sculptors Society of New Jersey, American Artist’s Professional League, The Catherine Lorillard Wolf Art Club and the American Art Society. By invitation she exhibited at the Ecclesiastical Crafts exhibit sponsored by the Church Architectural Guild of America. Her works are to be found in numerous private collections, and they have been used on the covers of national and international magazines and on religious publications. Three of her oils are available in reproductions and are nationally distributed. Color slides of her work are included in the Guild Slide Library maintained by the Church Architectural Guild of America, Washington, D. C. The collection is believed to be one of the most comprehensive in the country. Miss De Nagy’s late husband, Dr. Paul Stuart, was a noted psychiatrist. She is the mother of a married son, Peter, who is a graduate of Middle- bury College, Vermont, and he is studying architecture at the Graduate School of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a member of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Elizabeth, New Jersey. She is, as was her late husband also, a close and dear friend of many of the families of our Hungarian Reformed clergy on the East Coast. For many years, Dr. Stuart served as a member of the scholarship committee of the annual Hungarian Protestant Ball in New York City. Among numerous professional organizations, Miss De Nagy is a member of the Allied Artists of America; life member of the Provincetown Art Association, Cape Cod Art Association and American Artist’s Professional League; invited member of the Painters and Sculptors Society of New Jersey and past member of the arts committee of the Trenton State Museum, New Jersey. She is a past member
