Hilermono

On the walls of Manhattan's Squibb Gallery last week hung what was apparently a painting showing a number of little boys skating on ice. Behind this painting lay what seemed to be six window shades. Unrolled, they proved to be six separate paintings on specially woven flexible Dutch canvas that could be detached and placed separately about the walls. This device was the contribution of Artist Hilaire Hiler, 38, to the dilemma of art-lovers living in apartments which lack sufficient wall space to display canvases. Because the individual window shades are not unlike ancient Japanese kakemono paintings, Hilaire Hiler has called the whole contraption a Hilermono.

The Hilermono was not Artist Hiler's only invention. Also on exhibition was a rug showing Indian ponies woven from the carefully sorted undyed wool of white sheep, black sheep and their intermediates. There were also portraits of Chief Sits-In-The-Fall (No. 1) and Chief Sits-In-The-Spring (No. 2) painted in a new experimental wax resin technique.

Pale, saturnine Hilaire Hiler was born in St. Paul, educated at the University of Pennsylvania. All his life he wanted to be a painter, but virtually his only formal education in the arts was a few lessons on the saxophone. Serious critics have praised his work, night-club proprietors have admired his murals, and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Mrs. John Work Garrett have bought his paintings.

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