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Show .n " l i " . " 1 ? N x ' ! - " " c -' 1 j v C - mmmmm&Mm Detail from "The Buffalo Drive," mural-size mural-size painting by W. R. Leigh. To provide the winter's food before the bison's migration, mi-gration, Indians drove whole herds over cliffs while the sun was hot enough to cure the meat. W. R. Leigh Springville Exhibitor's Pictures Being Shown Throughout Nation v -Pocahontas also in his veins, the ! artist was stirred in his child- , hood by accounts of Custer's last stand; and a buffalo robe his prize possession inspired him even then with the overwhelming passion to depict these phases of American life in which Indian, buffalo and cowboy were then playing vital parts. Study abroad, years of travel and life in the West have culminated culmin-ated in the success of Leigh's early j dreams and ambitions with the result re-sult that The Maryland Institute, his alma mater, has invited him, as their most distinguished pupil, to exhibit his paintings in their Baltimore Gallery. Mr. Leigh is a well known exhibitor ex-hibitor in Springville art shows having had two paintings in the 1949 April Art Exhibit. Indelibly inscribed on the minds of all interested in art, Americana or horseflesh' are the names of Remington, Russell and Leigh. The latest welcome news coming to this public is a circuit of exhibits ex-hibits featuring a variety of paintings by W. R. Leigh that will tour the United States from coast to coast. Besides the more or less permanent per-manent exhibitions on display at Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, Gump's Galleries in San Francisco and Frank Phillips' Woolaroc Museum in Oklahoma, an important show is to be given January 8 through 22 at , the Maryland Institute, Baltimore, where Leigh, as a lad of 14 from Martinsburg, West Virginia, obtained ob-tained his 'first instruction. Vital to American history are such canvases as "The Buffalo Drive," "The Buffalo Hunt," "Land of the Navahos" and "Open Season on Bighorn," included in this show. A later display is announced for February at the Washington County Museum of Fine Art at Hagerstown, Maryland, and , a special exhibit of burros and Western West-ern ponies at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Aarizona, during the tourist season. Leigh's cloud studies and others made in Africa during his two trips there for the American Museum Mu-seum of Natural History are scheduled for a large number of museums and art galleries throughout the U. S. A. Descended from the first settlers of Virginia and with the blood of |