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Show Memorial Exhibit Opens Here Sunday; Program Planned The Memorial Art Exhibit in honor of two fine contributors to Springville art, is scheduled to open Sunday at 1 p.m., at the high school Art Gallery and s-an invitation is extended to art partons and other townspeople, to attend. To be honored by the fine array of paintings, representing various periods of their life, are the late Wayne Johnson, former curator and art instructor at the high school and Virgil O. Hafen, artist son of the originator of the Springville Spring-ville art movement. Approximately 150 paintings will be hung for the exhibit, which opens Sunday, January 14, and continues throughout January, according ac-cording to Mrs. Mae Huntington of the art committee. There will be large and small canvasses most of which have been loaned by citizens citi-zens for the event. The memorial exhibit is being sponsored by the local Hafen-DaJ-lin Art Study club, the members of which have been working in cooperation with the high school art committee on the project. The gallery will be open every day, except Saturday, after January Janu-ary 14, until January 31, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Sunday from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the evening. eve-ning. An attendant will be present at all times to answer quetions and show visitors about the gallery. gal-lery. As a special tribute to their father, members of the Johnson family will present a musical program pro-gram in the art gallery on Sunday the opening day, from 3 p.m. until 5 p.m. to which all are invited. The pictures in the Memorial Exhibit are hung in the west galr lery and in the central hall. Mrs. Huntington expressed ' -appreciation to the townspeople who cooperated in the collection of paintings by the two artists to make such a fine exhibit of their work possible. |