In San Diego & Los Angeles

San Diego's Fine Arts Gallery has an able director in Reginald Harkness Poland. He has regimented nearly 1,300 supporting members out of San Diego's population of 150,000. Last week he invited the 1,300 to behold an omnibus collection of U. S. art. He had picked one picture by each of 49 living U. S. artists, two dead ones. The 1,300 eyed the 51. In August, Director Poland's collection will begin a long itinerary to Honolulu, Pasadena, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Phoenix, Denver, Omaha, Kansas City. Critics last week called it one of the shrewdest summaries yet made of contemporary U. S. art. Art in San Diego was in good hands last week.

But 135 mi. north, art-lovers were flaying Director William Alanson Bryan of the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art for discharging Art Curator Harry Muir Kurtzworth, to meet a budget cut. Said Director Bryan: "It ran for years without an art curator and presumably can do so again." Said the Los Angeles Times: ''Even the bones have their vertebrate specialists. Art cannot expect to be taken as seriously. . . ."

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