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Show yu PAINTINGS AT THE BERTHANA. This Is good-pictures week and so It is most fitting that the Ogden Federation Fed-eration of Women's clubs should haw brought to this city and placed on exhibition during this week, and up to November 26, an exhibition of paintings paint-ings from the Metropolitan Museum of ' Art. The exhibit is at 317 Twenty- fourth street, in the Berthana building. build-ing. The pictures are works of art and kill are twenty-five in number. They are I,.!' highly valued and had to be insured, and then a guaranty of saf- return made by (he local women of clubs who are sponsoring tho exhibit. On Thursday afternoon the school children in large numbers islted the room in the Berthana and manifested much interest as one of the eachei In art explained the different palnt-Ings palnt-Ings and pointed out the jiidj achieved by the artists. Of all the pictures, the one that held the attention of the young people was "Autumn," a pastoral scene b Anton Mauve, a Dutch painter whose work is I, to be seen in the Museum at Amstcr- I "Marine." by Edward Moran, "Lake Magglore" by Sanford R Gifford, and I "Clearing Off" by Mrs. Charlotte I Buell Coman caught the fancy of one l whose eyes swept rapidly around the ,j wall of art. 1 i' An Idea can be a powerful tone for good in the mind of a boy or girl. Who knows how many children will receive I impressions from this exhibition that ; i will inspire them to great things. The I object of the introduction of this won- I derful group of paintings is to awaken I' that sense of the artistic which lies dormant and to give to the young pto m pie the inspiration to cultivate their ' finer nature. For the older people, the exhibition offers a rare treat in art, bringing, a it does, to their very door a part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |