By June 1947, a New York Times review of paintings he exhibited at Jacques Seligmann's gallery in the group show, Artists Under 25, acknowledged his efforts with the brief but laudatory comment, "Kahlil Gibran works subtly and effectively in encaustic" [REF].
In her review of this seminal show, Dorothy Adlow,[REF] wrote in the Christian Science Monitor: "Kahlil Gibran, who like Mr.David Aronson[REF] is 24 years old, paints a Pietà in oil with remarkable technical adaptation of pigment" [REF].