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Show 11 - . i- 1- Formal Exercises Scheduled at 2 p.m. Twentieth Annual Art Show Features A Variety of Types and Subjects Modernes and Conservatives Marking the opening of the Twentieth Annual National Art Exhibit, formal exercises will be held in the Art building Sunday afternoon at 2 p. m., and immediately following the exercises the Art building will be open so that art patrons may view this year s exhibit. The exhibition this year is undoubtedly un-doubtedly better than it has ever been before and should provide enough variety to satisfy most artistic ar-tistic appetites. Pictures range in type from the not too extreme modernes to the more understood conservative ones. There is also a good variety of subject matter and mood, portrayed by some of America's leading painters. An entire new Eastern gallery the Milch Galleries, is represented for the first time this year, and in this group Leon Kroll, famous artist who has won numerous awards and prizes, is representative. representa-tive. His portrait, "Mildred," will undoubtedly be popular. Other big galleries which are sending a number of paintings as in former years are the Vose Gallery Gal-lery at Boston, Macbeth Gallery of New York, and the Stendahl Gallery. Gal-lery. Utah artists are especially well represented in the art show with paintings of a variety of types and a good variety of subject matter. Of the Utah artists' group, especially es-pecially outstanding is the painting paint-ing "Jeanne," by Lee Greene Richards. Rich-ards. Mr. Richards is recognized as one of Utah's foremost painters of portraits. This portraiture of the little girl with long brown hair and her dolls is an interesting interest-ing study, with an appealing down-to-earth genuine quality. Another good portrait in the exhibit ex-hibit is Mr. Richards' painting of Henry M. Wallace, former Salt Lake City mayor. Devotees of art in the state will appreciate one of the good portraits por-traits in the exhibit done by Florence Flor-ence Ware under the title of "Ruth." It is a brilliant painting with pastel colors used freely In painting the textures of the dress and background of the picture, and is considered one of the finest fin-est that Florence Ware has sent to the exhibit. J. H. Stansfield of Mt. Pleasant, Pleas-ant, again has two or three entries en-tries in the show with his "Early Spring, Mt. Nebo" being probably the most outstanding. This paint-(Continued paint-(Continued on page ten) ART EXHIBIT OPENS SUNDAY (Continued from page one) ing is done in his usual style of soft color combinations and exemplifies exem-plifies his unusual technique. "Light o' the Moon," by J. T. Harwood, pioneer painter of Utah who recently died, is exhibited this year through Mrs. Alice Merrill Mer-rill Home,, state art patron. A number of good pieces come to the exhibit this year through Mrs. Home. Joseph Everett has some good entries this year with his water color, "Cathedral of the Madeline," Made-line," being especially outstanding of these. B. F. Larson's "Onion Harvest," which was one of two paintings selected recently to represent Utah at. a large Eastern art show, is an unusual painting that will undoubtedly un-doubtedly attract attention during tlve coming exhibit. It follows a now trend that he has recently developed, de-veloped, somewhat different from the type art patrons have become familiar with. Other Utah artists whose works will be noted with interest by art patrons, are: Rose Howard Salisbury, whose still life in the exhibit, "Columbine," "Colum-bine," is undoubtedly considered one of the best still life studies that has ever been exhibited in the Springville display; Verla Bir-rell, Bir-rell, Fan-ell Collett, Ralph Huntsman, Hunts-man, Bessie E. Gourley, Mary Roberts Ro-berts Warnick, Minerva Teichert, Glen Turner, Frank Kent, B. Y. Andelin, Virgil Hafen, Nellie May Mannng, Florence Frandsen, Flora ' D. Fisher, Gordon Cope, Calvin Fletcher, Wayne Johnson, Burtis Francis Robbins, and Cornelius Salisbury. The opening exercises will in7 elude talks by W. W. Brockbank, Mrs. Mae Huntington, and Glen Turner, on "Projects Planned for the Raising of Funds,", "New Artists in the Exhibit," and "A Birdseye View of Outstanding Paintings in the Exhibit," respectively. res-pectively. A variety of musical numbers is also planned. - Art queens are elected from each grade at the high school and each year contests are conducted between the grades so that their queens will have the privilege of unveiling the prize pictures. The queens elected this year are as follows: Senior class, Lor-ene Lor-ene Maag; Junior class, Elma Patrick; Pat-rick; Sophomore class, Laverne Gourley; Ninth grade, Joyce Peirce; Eighth grade, Mary Jane Condie; Seventh grade, Delores Smith. |