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Show PRIZE PICTURE IS UNVEILED AT SPRINGVILLE ART GALLERY The unveiling of the prize picture at the Springville high school art gallery, Friday morning, May 2, marked the close of the most successful suc-cessful exhibit ever held in Springville Spring-ville since the beginning of the art move, more than 20 years ago. The prize picture, "Land of the Morning," by Hansen Duvall Put-huff Put-huff of Los Angeles, Calif., was unveiled un-veiled by Miss Grace Llewellyn, of the freshman class, and although the latest addition to the gallery, it is by no means the least. The actual commercial value of this picture pic-ture is estimated at $1500. It was the choice of the judges out of 158 that were on exhibition. Other pictures presented were "Springtime," by John M. Gamble of Santa Barbara, Calif., purchased by the junior class of the high school; "Grey Dawn," presented by Alfred Scroff of Oregon, who took first honors at the exhibit last , year ; "Hollyhocks," by John W. Hafen, which was recently purchased pur-chased by the school; and "Sunlit Glades," by John F. Carlson of New York, presented by the art committee. commit-tee. These were unveiled by Miss Donna Hansen, Miss Grace Llewellyn, Llew-ellyn, Miss Inez Wheeler, and A. J. I Jacobsen, res pec lively. ! Dr. F. S. Harris, president of the Brigham Young university, was the Lake" City spoke of the merits of the prize picture. In referring to the annual exhibit, he said, "Every year it has got a little better than the year before, both in size and pre-eminently in quality of work." Others who spoke were Principal R. L. Done, Superintendent Peterson Peter-son of the Nebo school district, and Wayne Johnson, chairman of the art committee. Melvin Done and Florence Priday gave a cello and violin duet, accom-l panied on the piano by Miss Louise1 Coffman. Other numbers were furnished fur-nished by the high school mixed chorus, and the high school male chorus. Not only was the exhibit this year the largest ever held in the state, but from a technical standpoint it surpassed former exhibitions in subject sub-ject matter and handling. In the opinion of many art critics, several of the paintings stand up well with the best in American nrt today. Included In-cluded In the 158 paintings were ir pressionistic scenes, portraits and landscapes, representing the work of many well known artists throughout through-out the country. It is estimated that more than 20,000 persons viewed the paintings during the month they were on display. principal speaker at the unveiling program. "Springville has become famous in this state," he said, "because "be-cause they have this art project. People pass straight through Provo on their way to Springville to see the art exhibit." I In referring to the Influence that I art has had upon the world, Mr. Harris said, "A handful of people in Athens because of their love of art have influenced the world for centuries." ' He urged the students of the high , school to get the significance of the , art in tielr souls, that after leav-j leav-j ing the echool they might contribute j to beauty everywhere they go, in i the building of beautiful homes as well as beautiful lives, and also to I recognize the beauty in nature and ! in humanity. N. K. Nielsen of Salt Lake City, 1 formerly principal of the Spring-i Spring-i villo high school, said Richmond, ' Ind., has the only high school in (tie United States with an art gallery gal-lery that rivals the one in Spring-I Spring-I villo, and although Richmond ten 1 years ago was ahead of Springville, that now Springville is again iu ( the le:id. Mr. Nielsen reviewed the ; beginning of the art move in I Springville. Dr. George L. Smart of Salt In appreciation of the unusual merit of the exhibition the judges awarded diplomas of honor to the following artists : Alfred Schroff, Oregon; John F. Carlson, New York ; Frederick Carl Frieseke, New York ; Jean Mann-helm, Mann-helm, California; Lidin Cox, Seattle; Seat-tle; Donna Schuster, Oregon; John M. Gamble. California; V. O. Hafen, Oregon ; Benjamin Brown, California; Lee Greene Richards, Salt Lake ; J. H. Moser, Idaho ; ; Laurence Squires, Salt Lake; G. Wesley Browning, Salt Lake ; Calvin Cal-vin Fletcher, Logan ; A. B. Wright, Salt Lake; Florence Ware, Salt Lake ; W. S. Reindel, New York ; J. T. Harwood, Salt Lake: Lee F. Randall, California; J. W. Wilkln-shaw, Wilkln-shaw, Seattle; Maurice Del Mue, California William P. Silva, California Cali-fornia ; Edwin Evans, Salt Lake; Le Conte Stewart, Knysville; Mattes Sandona, California : C. Salisbury, Salt Lake; Delia Miller, Kansas; Kugene Nenhaus, California; E. II. Kasfmond, Provo. In addition to bringing worthwhile worth-while paintings to Springville for exhibition, it is the plan of the young art devotees (o add one or more pieces each year to their collection, col-lection, which now contains fifty-seven fifty-seven paintings and six statues. |