GARÉ'S VIEWPOINTS

... During these years from 1952 to 1966 (the period in which Garé helped Carl with his comic book work - Editor's remark) I painted on the side and gradually found the things I loved painting ... the landscapes and animals of the western states thru which we traveled for a month or six weeks every year.
I found I had a photographic eye for scenes that we saw - sometimes just passing in the car. We photographed many areas and sketched many, but for the main part my paintings are from my mind's eye - sometimes composites of several scenes, sometimes just one tree that impressed me.
Since 1968 I have painted numerous works for Donald Art Publishing Co., New York, and since 1969 The Leanin' Tree Publishing, Colorado, has had about 4 of my paintings of the western scenes and wildlife up on their cards, calendars and prints. They are consistently among their highest selling cards ...

... Regarding my attitude toward art: For me, it has always been a way of making a living that I enjoyed enormously. I have never had any patience or sympathy with the 'arty' set that surrounds most major exhibitions and found very early that to enter such affairs was to ask for a 'put down' of my work by some so called 'modern' artist judge.
So long as my work sold thru galleries faster than I could produce it and pleased the buying public enough that it fetched good prices I saw no reason to chase after exhibitions or awards. I have entered local shows at various times and won numerous ribbons and even gold trophies, the gold ones I've kept as ornaments ...

... I never found time to enter any large, prestigious art competitions. The demands of my occupation and the location of my studio made entering such shows very inconvenient...
...My paintings seemed to sell on their own merits, so I did not feel constrained to go courting public attention. I'm afraid, though, that I've missed a lot of fun and thrills (and heartbreaks) by being a working painter instead of an exhibition artist ...

... After 1966 when my husband retired from comic book work I started painting full time and have exhibited in numerous west coast galleries - but have now boiled it down to Chriswood Gallery at Rancho California Plaza (in Temecula, California - Editor's remark), with whom I have been associated for 10 years, and Jensen Galleries in Jackson, Wyoming. These two sell all the work and more than I want to produce ...

... I took the name Garé as a painting name because I had had it as a nickname from very early in life and it was a name which did not denote the feminine gender particularly. In the late 30's and early forties being a woman did not make it any easier to get where you wanted to go career wise.
Many a time when my work was on show I have been told by viewers upon being introduced that they had thought by the painting style and name that the artist was a man!

Garé (and Carl) exhibiting in Palm Springs, California, 1968