"...An elusive
mysticism is caught by the artist in her imaginative pastels...which are drawn
with astonishing delicacy."
- Royal Cortissoz, New YorkHerald Tribune, April 18, 1943
"There is a deep and rare satisfaction in finding an artist
who stands alone... Her purposeful effortlessness constrains the heart's
attention. Each pastel absorbs our thought as does the sonority of a significant
voice... Consuelo Cloos reflects the essential simplicity of complex emotion...
In her enchanted clouds we view psychic eyes."
- Albert
Ledoux, December 20, 1947
"Consuelo Cloos is an artist of exceptional and individual talents. ...the
picture is an exteriorization thought...from reserves of imagination. She has
created some expressive and stirring images. They are impalpable, elusive,
molded sheerly from shadow and vapor. These portrayals do not weigh or measure,
or solidify, yet they are strangely alive and allusive. Each spectator can read
as much into such visionary manifestations as his imagination and susceptibility
permit."
- Dorothy Adlo, Christian Science Monitor, February, 1948
In a letter to the artist: "I feel compelled to write you these few lines to
tell you that your beautifully conceived and sensitive water colors of forms of
nature I found of artistic and aesthetic quality projecting also an individual
experience. The handling of your work can only successfully be accomplished by
someone who believes in it."
- Mrs. Ala Story, Staff Specialist
in Art, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 12, 1969
"Consuelo Cloos is one of those rare individuals who can express deep tenderness
and brooding beauty in her work as an artist. It is very difficult to speak of
her art; it must be seen and felt. I can recommend her unreservedly both as an
artist and human being."
In a letter to the
artist: "It has been a pleasure to make photographs of your watercolors and oil
paintings. It is most unusual to see work such as yours. For this reason, the
public may not accept them as great art for some years..."
- George M. Cushing, Jr.,
Photographer, Boston, September 18, 1950
In a letter to the J.S. Gueggenheim Memorial Foundation: "Consuelo
Cloos is an artist of great imagination and originality. I have always admired
her spiritual power and genius which shows in her many works. May I offer my
highest praise to this remarkable and unique artist. She is a pioneer spirit
ahead of her time."
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