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Show Art Gallery Popular With Tourists From 23 States, Four Foreign Lands Evening Post and state that they are impressed with the clean appearance of the streets. Mrs. Huntington said she is quite amused when they ask to see the exact spot where the Post pictures were taken. Visitors were registered from 84 cities, seven of which are from California; 13 in Utah and five in Idaho. Others are from further distances. England, West Australia, Sweden, Switzerland Swit-zerland and Peru all represented represen-ted among the visitors from foreign lands. One lady from Paris, 111., made two trips to the gallery, returning the second time from Salt Lake City. She said the collection was the finest she had seen traveling from Illinois to the west coast and return. She as well as many other visitors vi-sitors praised the conservative choice of paintings in the gallery gal-lery stating that they enjoyed seeing something they could appreciate and understand. A total of 600 visitors registered re-gistered at the high school Art Gallery during June, July and August, representing 23 states, Washington D. C. and four foreign for-eign countries, according to Mrs. Mae Huntington, who has been in attendance at the gallery gal-lery each afternoon during the summer. In the 79 afternoons the gallery gal-lery was open, Mrs. Huntington Hunting-ton estimated she gave 60 lectures lec-tures on the paintings in the permanent exhibit. Several off-schedule off-schedule tours were also made of the gallery when groups requested. re-quested. It is interesting, she said, the kinds of questions asked by the visitors. One wanted to know if the art gallery was an old mission restored; another asked concerning the relation of the gym ana the gallery as both were of the same architecture. architec-ture. Most people are amazed that so small a town as Springville Spring-ville could maintain such an art collection, Mrs. Huntington said. Practically everyone is interested in how it began, how the town secured the building and the paintings and continued contin-ued to acquire the valuable pieces of art over a 50-year period. Many visitors ask about the tile in the building and Mrs. Huntington is delighted to explain ex-plain that it, like many other aspects of the Springville art movement, is unique. The tile for the building was made by the late Virg Hafen, son of the artist who donated the first painting to the art collection and there is no other tile like it anywhere. Mr. Hafen Ha-fen made those for the art building and no others. The formula he used is not known, Mrs. Huntington explains to the visitors. Making inquery concerning how the tourists knew about the Springville art collection, Mrs. Huntington found that some had learned about it from automobile guides, road signs, the Information Booth and at motels. Many mentioned that they had read about Springville in the Saturday |