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Show Awards of Merit made Sat.; unveiling set Monday afternoon The curtain will fall on the 1962 annual national art exhibit ex-hibit at the high school art gallery next Monday evening at 9 p.m. and the following day many pieces of art will be taken down, crated and returned re-turned to their owners. Three outstanding , artists and art critics, B. F. Larsem, formerly at BYU; Calvin Flet cher, retired from USU and LeConte Stewart retired from U. of V., will be at the Art Gallery Saturday to judge the, outstanding water color and the outstanding painting. Each year a $100 prize is given the best water color and $200 to the painter of the best oil as awards of merit. A marker will be placed on each of the two pictures designating desig-nating them as the winners of the Awards of Merit, immediately imme-diately after judging so that visitors to the gallery may view them Saturday evening, Sunday and Monday, before the closing. It is believed that more visitors vi-sitors have toured the Art Gallery Gal-lery this month than in several sev-eral years. There have been numerous bus loads of students from cities throughout Utah as well as club and civic groups. Lectures on the art each night from 7:30 to 9 p.m., have been well attended. The gallery has been open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., daily including Sundays, throughout April and student attendants have taken turns at the desk, to answer questions concerning concern-ing the national exhibit. The lectures each night and admission admis-sion to the gallery are free. Important Visitors Many artists of note from Utah and out-side the state are listed on the official register re-gister at the gallery.- Art critics and teachers from most of the schools in the state have viewed the paintings. There have been scores of tourists passing through, who ' have made it a point to see the national na-tional show in addition to many from this and other cities throughout; the state. Pamvi R.x KtilV "If visitors got no farther, than the East Gallery on the first floor of the art building, and saw the' large painting, "Peace be Still," by Arnold Friberg of Salt Lake City, they would be amply paid for' their time," one individual remarked re-marked after looking at the painting. This piece of art is not for sale, but is owned by Mrs. Rose Floyd of Salt Lake City. She felt that if the painting could give as much pleasure to each of the thousands of visitors to Springville's art show, as it had to her, she would be willing to loan it to the high school for the duration dura-tion of the National Exhibit. |