PLEASANT & POPULAR

Madeline Hewes paints pleasant, easy-to-understand pictures, which people enjoy looking at and museums, as well as private collectors, like to own. So far, she has painted 41 pictures, and sold 38 of them. The other three are fresh off the easel that stands in her Newtown, Conn, studio.

Her one & only show, in 1948, was a sellout. C. V. ("Sonny") Whitney was her first customer, with a $350 purchase, and since then she has found it hard to supply the de. mand. The Paul Mellons have 14 of her pictures, including an $8,000 series of wall paintings, which show the four seasons in full bloom at their Upperville, Va. farm. The Mellons are especially taken by Painter Hewes's gift for catching the individual personalities of their favorite cats, dogs, horses and cows.

In Haiti last winter, she rough-sketched The Blessing Strive (right, above), then submitted the finished picture for Massachusetts' Springfield Museum of Fine Arts' 12th annual purchase exhibition. The public voted.

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