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Show Art Exhibit Set At ' University Art Show Utahns have the opportunity for the next month to see works of the nation's finest artists in the field of graphic prints and drawings displayed in Salt Lake City. The prints and drawings are showing in the third annual U of U Invitational Art Show, ' which opened Sunday in the University's new Student Union. Alvin L. Gittins, Head of the Department of Art, said the show will run through March 24. Hie show is hung in the ballroom corridor, cor-ridor, open daily from 8 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. "Every major name in graphic prints and drawings, from the artistic 'left' to the artistic 'right is represented among the 337 works in tha show," Mr. Gittins said. The show includes, he said, such names as Robert Gwathmay, Jack Lavine, Rico Lebrun, Howard Bradford, Robert Brackman, Maurice Lasansky, Edward Hopper, Hop-per, Charles Burchfield, Leonard Baskin and Ben Shahn whose works are often seen in national magazines. "And it includes our own Ma-honri Ma-honri Young, the man who created the 'This Is the Place' Mounment," Mr, Gittins said. The Invitational had its start three years ago as a "local" show, he said( which featured the paintings paint-ings of Utah artists. Last year it became a regional show featuring the paintings of Intermountain and West Coast artists. "This year it presents the nation's best in the graphic prints and drawings field," he said. |