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Show Famous Art Galleries Support Springville Exhibit; Opens April 1 .entry this year. His favorite subject sub-ject is the home-life of Cape Cod fishermen, and because of his ability abil-ity to express character in the faces of these peonle. his paintings I have been placed among the strongest that are now being pro- -duced. In 1923 "The First' Mate" won the Wm. A. Clark prize of $1,500 and the silver medal of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, Washing-ton, D. C. In 1926 the same picture won the Proctor portrait prize of the National Academy of Design. Whereas Mr. Hawthorne in speaking cf his paintings says, "I strive to get something so lifelike that it is more than life." Gardner Symons says, "We cannot hope to paint more beautifully (than the Master Painter) the wonderful moving clouds, the distant up-springing up-springing hills, nor the nearby trees with the sunshine shimmering shimmer-ing through their tender foliage." Because he finds so much pleasure in the beauty of nature and is able to express it on canvas in such a way that his pictures are real joy givers, he has been given the title of "Optimist in Art." He is both an impresisonist and a realist and is caimed by both groups. Like Twachtmnn and Henri he has no single method of painting but adupts hU style to the subject. It is expected that these entries will form some high notes in this year's exhibit and would of themselves them-selves make a display of no slight consequence. By MAE HUNTINGTON , According to custom, several of the large art galleries of the United States wil again give their support sup-port to the Springville high school j exhibit. i Robert C. Vose of the Vose gal-1 lery, Boston writes that he is holding hold-ing a large exhibit at the Biltmore gallery at Los Angeles during March and that a number of his choicest canvases "will be sent from there to the Springville exhibit. Among those listed are "Noank -Hills," by Charles H. Davis; "Twin Cathedrals," by Elliott Danger-field; Danger-field; "Solitude," by J. J. Enne-king; Enne-king; "Azalea and Kwong," by Herman D. Murphy; "The Swing," by Arthur I. Spear, and "Embarrassed," "Em-barrassed," by Wm. R. Leigh. Initial Exhibit From the Gerargil's, New York, Maynnrd Walker, director of paintings?, paint-ings?, signifies his intention of displaying dis-playing paintings by Luigi Lucioni, M. Elizabeth Price, Gerald Leake, and John Stewart Curry. From the Macbeth gallery in New York, the committee has been promised some very fine additions to the exhibit in representative paintings by W. Elmer Schofield, Emil Carlson, Jonas Lie, C. W. Hawthorne, Chauncey F. Rider, ; Gardner Symons, Arthur Meltzer. j Hayley Lever, and Ogden M. i Pleissner. ! Many of these artists this year are making their initial exhibit at the Springville gallery. Outstanding Outstand-ing among the new arrivals are Charles H. Davis, of Mystic, Conn.; C. W. Hawthorne and Gardner Symons of New York. Charles IT. Davis began his art career in conservative colors, tho grays and browns of the old school. He later came under the influence of the impressionists and learned to see color. Since then his paintings have been more joyous. joy-ous. "Noank Hills" is a scene from his favorite sketching place, the beautiful region about Mysic, Conn. New Artist Coming The Springville committee has long hoped to add C. W. Hawthorne to its list of exhibitors, and is looking look-ing forward with pleasure to his |