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Show t Best oil water color of exhibit to be unveiled at Friday opening There is an air of expectancy about the high school and throughout Springville, as the time draws near for the opening of the 39th annual national April Art Exhibit Friday, Mar. 29, at the high school art museum. mu-seum. Two programs will mark the opening, one at 10:30 a.m., for students and the formal opening open-ing program for the public at 7:30 p.m., both in the high school auditorium. The formal opening program in the evening will feature Professor Pro-fessor Glen H. Turner of BYU art department, as the speaker. For a number of years, Prof. Turner was curator of the high school art exhibits and became well acquainted with the history his-tory and the purpose of the art project in Springville. His continued con-tinued interest in the movement coupled with his ability as an outstanding Utah artist, will give townspeople a real treat at the opening program. He will talk about some of the new paintings in the current show as well as those of previous exhibits. ex-hibits. There will also be music numbers num-bers by a string quartet from the high school and vocal selections selec-tions from the MIA quartet which won in the recent district contest. Special unveiling For the first time, the prize oil painting of the current ex hibit will be announced and unveiled un-veiled at the Friday night opening open-ing program. This painting has been selected as best of the April showing and will receive (Continued on page 2, col. 3) Annual April art exhibit opens Friday (Continued from page 1) a $200.00 prize. Also, the best exhibited water color will be named and unveiled during the program and its artist will receive re-ceive a $100 prize. Second and third place winners will be named in each of the two categories cate-gories and will be given certificates. certi-ficates. Another special feature of the opening program will be the introduction of the finalists in the art queen contest. The queen and her attendants will be ; featured throughout the summer season in various parades par-ades in the area and will help publicize Springville and its unique Art Exhibit and collection. collec-tion. Principal Omar Hansen, president of the art board, will preside at the program. Student program Under direction of Mrs. Margaret Mar-garet Pehrson, a skit has been written for the student program pro-gram and students will take part in music, dance and other numbers. Dea Montague, student stu-dent body president, will be in charge and speak briefly on pictures shown on films. Richard Uunn of the axu art department, former art instructor in-structor at Springville high school, will speak on pictures in the 1963 April Art Show. Most interesting A visit to this year's art show will , undoubtedly provoke mixed emotions among most people. There will probably be some criticism and adverse comment especially on the modernistic mod-ernistic entries, but visitors will find on the whole, many fine quality paintings. In a preview of the exhibit, it was noted that possibly the largest number of moderns and semi-modern pictures which has ever been exhibited are hung in this year's exhibit. Bright colors seem to predominate the show, which is probably one of the most interesting ever hung. A variety of subjects and styles of paintings will be observed, and the presence of many well-known well-known artists and previous exhibitors ex-hibitors will be seen. One of the lovliest and most impressive paintings in the exhibit ex-hibit is the huge, "Farmer and Rain Cloud," by Russell Cowles. Arnold Friberg of Salt Lake City, who will be remembered for his "Peace, Be Still," featured fea-tured on the First floor gallery last year, is again represented as is Margaret Pearson of Rock-port Rock-port Mass., without whom a national April Art show would not be complete. There are many other artists who will be readily recognized by their pictures in this year's show and there are also many new names with paintings to add to the quality of the 1963 exhibit. |