The Dusti Bongé Foundation in Biloxi has not awayed 24 of the artist's early paintings - all from her short-lived surrealist period in the early 1950 - to the Mobile Museum of Art.

The Dusti Bongé Foundation in Biloxi has not awayed 24 of the artist's early paintings - all from her short-lived surrealist period in the early 1950 - to the Mobile Museum of Art.

They'll be in succession exhibit there Oct. 6, 2006-Jan. 7 2007 which will mark the first public point out of her surrealistic work. Titled "The Poetic Eye: Dusti Bongé's Surrealist Images," the exhibit will also include loans from the foundation.

Bongé (1903 -1993) is known as the common of the country's most important female abstract expressionist painters and the merely one from the South. During the last 15 years, the private Bongé foundation has sought to lay open a broader audience appreciation for her art within exhibitions and gifts to museums.

Included are the permanent collections of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC Mississippi Museum of Art in