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Show ART OPENING EXERCISES SET FOR MARCH 31 Springville's annual art event the eighteenth annual national high school art exhibit opens Friday, March 31, with formal exercises to be held in the high school auditorium. Details of the opening program are to be worked out as plans for the show mature. The exhibit will remain open as is customary, during the entire month of April and everyone will be invited to attend. In the meantime every effort is being put forth by students, high school faculty, art committee commit-tee members and othcr intpresl-ed citizens, to bring before the general gen-eral . pu'blic some worthwhile art to enrich .the lives of the thousands thou-sands of visitors expected to view the pictures in. the art gallery during dur-ing the art month. Promising unsurpassed quality and interest in the exhibit are replies from numerous nationally known artists who state their Intentions In-tentions of being represented with pictures in the 1039 show. Among these are such familiar names as Maurice Baum, Lee F. Randolph, . Rudolph F. Ingerle, James Knox, Alfred Ncstler, Ded-rick Ded-rick B. Stuber, A. L. Rowel, Alice Judson, Emilc A. Gruppe. Walter E. Baum, A. J. Hammond, Olof Mollcr, Charles P. Gruppe, Percy L. Mancer, Maltco Sandona, Ferdinand Fer-dinand Burgdorff, Chauncy F. Ryder, John Law Walker and others. H. Dudley Murphy whose "Cosmos "Cos-mos and Marigolds" was purchased purchas-ed by the high school in 1937, will be represented in this year's show as will William R. Leigh, whose canvass "Up Where the Big Winds Blow," delighted hundreds of visitors at the art gallery last year. William Ritschel, painter of "The Sea Rover" one of the high school's most prized possessions, plans to send other paintings for the 11)39 exhibit. Fera Webber Shear, recognized for her still life and portrait paintings, will also enter, as will Margaret S. Pearson, whose "Snowbound," is another of the school's prize pictures. Prominent among artists recognized recog-nized as prospective newcomers is Alexander Z. Krusc, follower of Emil Carlson, Robert Henri and John Sloan. Though comparatively comparative-ly young, he has achieved marked success. Six of his paintings hang in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, and ne has three fine works in the New York public library. Utah artists' work will also occupy a prominent place in the art gallery announce art committee commit-tee members. This group always attracts the interest ol visitors and the number is growing larger each year. As the major portion of the responsibility re-sponsibility of financing the art project rests with the high school, faculty members and students each year are taxed with the problem prob-lem of devising new and effective methods by which to raise funds. Therefore this month is not only one of anticipation to the entire community but one of special activity ac-tivity at the high school. |