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Show jyiiiiiMMMMMui)iiiwiimiiMyyi it Z,n i tern ! "i "if ' u it if: 4' The masterpiece painting of the parting of tht waters of the Red The masterpiece painting of the parting of the waters of the Red Moses. . Thousands View Paintings Shown At Sons of Utah Pioneers Museum Throngs numbering into the thousands crowded into the Sons of the Utah Pioneer Village ad-minstration ad-minstration building Sunday to see the exhibition of Arnold Friberg's "Ten Commandment" paintings. Presiding over the showing was the perfect host Horace A. Sorensbn who from time to time briefed the guests with some of the background back-ground details of the paintings and their creator Mr. Friberg, a native of Holladay. ' The pictures, in creation for several sev-eral years, provided inspiration for the settings of the Cecil B. De-Mille De-Mille production, "The Ten Commandments." Com-mandments." They begin with the colorful portrayal of the finding of Moses in the bulrushes and proceed pro-ceed through the various episodes of his life including the moving passage through the parted Red Sea, and the sensuous splendor of the Golden Calf scene. All the paintings are noble in conception, majestic in completion, filling the viewer with awe. Mr. Friberg concluded the presentation pres-entation by personally autographing autograph-ing several hundred souviner booklets. Another public presentation of this unique collection began yesterday yester-day at the Union Building on the campus of the University of Utah. This time a personal appearance of the artist, Mr. Friberg, is scheduled and he will talk about the paintings. The concluding day will be February 20 After that the collection will be broken up and sent to different parts of the country probably not to be reassembled re-assembled for about three years. 1 |