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Show ARTISTS MAKE SPRINGVILLE PILGRIMAGE By J. F. WING ATE. The Springville national are exhibit ex-hibit was honored with visitors last Friday from Wisconsin state and Chicago city. One of the visitors visit-ors had heard of the art project through Dr. K .A. Winshi) the edi-or edi-or of the National Educational Journal. He was present in the city of Chicago when Dr. Winship in u public speech made the statement state-ment that way out West he knew a small town that was doing more to promote thef ine arts than any town In the world and this town is Springville, Utah." Dr. Wiiiship came to T'tah about four yers ago to speak before the state teachers convention at Suit Lake City, and while in the state visited the Springville Art Gallery. Dr. Winship is a man of wide experience ex-perience and being well known nationally na-tionally can do us a lot of good. Every day and night visitors are coming to see the exhibit and a I present over five hundred have made the pilgrimage. The very best works of art from twenty six states now adorn the walls of the high schools auditorium and the selection selec-tion of the prize picture will demand de-mand the services of competent art critics. Of the many outstanding artists exhibiting this year who have not as yet been mentioned is Mary Butler, But-ler, president of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Miss Butler has coupled with her skill as a painter her enthusiasm for the advancement ad-vancement of American Art. As a landscape and marine paintei', as mi interpreter of gardens she has received recognition through several honorable mentions at the Albright Gallery in Buffalo, N. Y., and by the ward of the plastic club gold medal. Miss Butler was represented in the Buenos Aires-Rio de Janeria-San Janeria-San Palo exhibit sent out last summer sum-mer by the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. Cumclie Whitehurst of Baltimore is anoter of the foremost lady painters paint-ers of the world. She received first prize in the all Southern Exhibition held in Charleston, S. C, in 1U21 ; has won the Delgrndo prize in New Orleans, and is represented both in the Delgrndo museum and the permanent perm-anent collection of the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania Academy of Fine Arts. Her ! work is rather impressionistic than ; reproductive and is spontaneous in effect. , Katherine Patton, who had been mentioned before deals with nature half conventionalized in woodland design. Her picturs hold the quality of a carefully woven tapestry, preserving pre-serving the mossy and woodsy atmosphere at-mosphere of a virgin forest. "Deep in Woods" a picture painted by Miss Patton and now in the exhibit, certainly reveals these qualities. The exhibit, is opeue every day and night until 9 p. m., and the public is invited to take advantage of the opportunity by visiting the gallery often. |