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Show Etching Display Gains Attention fl A very interesting and educational educa-tional feature of the remainder of the Springville high school art exhibit is the display of a group of etchings by Alfred Hutty, one of the foremost artists in this line in America. The etchings are on display in a room set apart for that purpose und arrived only last week on their itinerary through the state and the west. The collection consists of forty-the forty-the etchings varying in size and in subject matter from negro types to historic and artistic buildings, with a number of interesting in-teresting tree studies. This collection has been displayed dis-played in large galleries throughout through-out the country before coming to Utah where it has been shown in a number of Utah high schools and colleges. Everywhere the unusual un-usual excellence of tne work has been acclaimed. One critic says, "To write about Alfred Hutty with complete appreciation of his knowledge and skill one should be an etcher, a portrait painter, an authority on architecture, and a connoisseur of trees, so skillfully does he combine the characteristics character-istics of each in his pictures," Many critics and publishers have attempted to persuade Hutty to be a specialist in the portraiture of tiees because most of his prize winning plates have ben tree subjects, sub-jects, of which no other artist except ex-cept Ernest Haskell has made su intimate and protound a study. Hutty' portraits of human types are no less remarkable than ins tree studies. The negro has in him a sympathetic intepreter. The facination of Charleston where the artist spends his winters, its old houses, narrow streets, and garden gar-den gates of intricate wrought iron have led him to salvage what he can of the picturesque antiquity which is rapidly passing away. Mr. Hutty is a native of Grand Rapids, Mich. In early manhood he entered a studio in Kansas City and later become associateed with the Tiffany studios in New York. While with Tiffany he studied art. During the World war he was transformed into a marine "cam-oufleur" "cam-oufleur" one of that small group of painters who was sent to Washington Wash-ington to make sea traffic less hazardous. Atfer the war Mr. Hutty went to Charleston as instructor in-structor in the art school of the Carolina Art Association. After a few days in this new field of work he wired his wife that he had "found heaven," and since then the greater part of his time has been spent in Charleston. Mr. Hutty is not only an etcher of note but is also a distinguished painter in water colors, oils and lithographs. This very fine exhibition will be a part of the Springville art exhibit ex-hibit durng the remandcr of thu month ana the public is cordially invited to see it in connection with the rest of the exhibition. The art exhibit Sunday attracted attract-ed an unusually large crowd the visitors being estimated near lfiOO people. A concert by the high school orchestra directed by Clair Johnson was an added feature of entertainment, at the gallery, during the evening. & . |