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Show WINNING ART ESSAYS OF THE 1938 EXHIBIT By MAE HUNTINGTON To the students of the Springville Spring-ville high school the opening of the eighteenth annual Art Exhibit Ex-hibit means scanning, studying, scrutinizing, selecting, and finally final-ly deciding upon the picture which will be the subject of his essay, "My Favorite Picture." Every student in the school is required re-quired to enter the contest, and great is the interest displayed in this assignment while the exhibit is on. Artists and critics who lecture lec-ture durng the month often observe ob-serve a group of attentive boys and girls listening to the comments com-ments and criticisms made on various pictures.- After the contest is over, the best of the essays are sent to the artists whose pictures are thus chosen and described, and the artists' ar-tists' appreciation for the students' stu-dents' interpretation is often acknowledged ack-nowledged in glowing terms; and not infrequently, that appreciation appre-ciation is expressed in tangible form by the gift of a painting. The following are a few of the comments made by artists: "I was much interested in the essay written by one of your students. I must say that it was more feelingly written than most professional art critics could have done and was minus the mystifications mystifi-cations that the last-named brood love to foist on an innoccnT public. pub-lic. Many thanks for it and my congratulations to the writer." JOHN F. CARLSON. Director of School of Landscape Painting, Woodstock, N. Y. "It is certainly gratifying to find young people in this jazz age, this age of crazy pictures (w'hich poseurs designate as modern mod-ern art) who admire things which make an appeal to one's finer nature. Please thank these two students, whose essays I have received with pleasure, and tell them how clever I think theyarS to express so well what I have tried to do in paint." ABBOTT F. GRAVES, Kennebunkport, Maine. "Thank you for the appreciative apprecia-tive and observant essay on "Snowbound." The student noted all the things that I most intended in-tended to convey in the picture. I particularly wanted to s'how the contrast between warm light indoors in-doors and cold light outside, and many older persons have not grasped this idea as she has." MARGUERITE S. 'PEARSON. Boston, Mass. "Thank you so much for the two essays written on my picture, pic-ture, "Spring." They are both so interesting and complimentary 1 shall keep them in my scrap book my "I Love Me" book, I call it. I shall h3 the happiest of persons per-sons if. sometime I can be represented rep-resented in your permanent collection. col-lection. You have found The finest fin-est way to develop art-minded citizens." NELL WALKER WARNER, Laguna Beach, Calif. "It is quite overwhelming that my picture should have inspired this fine art theme and poem, especially es-pecially the poem which I think is exceptionally good for an eighth grade student." ROSE HOWARD SALISBURY, Salt Lake City, Utah. "In the making of any art object ob-ject two things are necessary an artist to create it, and a person per-son to appreciate it. This is why I think the request of the school for an essay from every student :n some favorite picture is well worthwhile. There are many lines in the essay that show that the writer is a thoughtful and careful care-ful observer with a facility in description, de-scription, which if disciplned (Continued on Page Three) WINNING ART ESSAY OF 1938 EXHIBIT (Conlinueii Irani rage One) mg'ht lead to writing- as a vocation." voca-tion." BENJAMIN C. BROWN, Pasadena, Calif. Due to the generosity of exhibiting exhib-iting artists, who often contribute contrib-ute small paintings for the essay contest, an oil painting .is awarded award-ed for the best essay in the senior high and one for the best in the junior 'high school. Whenever I more paintings are available a first and second prize are awarded award-ed in each school. Since 1930, I twenty-nine oil paintings have been awarded as prizes in the es- say contest, and fully as many J have been sent directly to stu- I dents from artists who have wished to express their appreci- ; ation for the essays sent them. Last year the prize in the senior sen-ior high school was awarded to Mary Louise Wingate for her essay es-say on, "The Dancer," painted by Sidney E. Dickinson. In the junior jun-ior hig school, the prize was awarded to Marjorie Simkins for her essay on, "Eyes for Two," by Jane Freeman. Both prizes were water colors by J. H. Stansfield of Mt. Pleasant, Utah. The prize-winning essays follow: fol-low: i |