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Show Ramble Through The Gallery With Sketches of Distinctive Paintings i Composition, Color Combinations Textures and Various Artistic Qualities of Paintings Pointed Out By GLEN TURNER Our exhibition this year should provide enough variety to satisfy most artistic appetites. Pictures range in type from the not too extreme moderns to j, the more understood conservative ones. There is also a good variety of subject matter and mood, as por-a por-a trayed by some of America's leading painters. , . We have also attempted to provide as much var-, var-, iety as possible in the hanging of the exhibition. With lne Possible exception of part of j the south wall in the west gallery, there has been no attempt to "esregate pictures according to Quality or type. On this wall, how- , ever, a number of the paintings , lth more modern tendencies have ,i been grouped together. ij Conspicuous among these is the still life group by Yasuo Kuniyo-an Kuniyo-an instructor at the Art Stu-wnts' Stu-wnts' League in New York City, "lis canvas is of particular interest inter-est In that it Illustrates the type 0 " Individualism for which Kuni-voshl Kuni-voshl is famous. Possibly it is ununderstandable to devotees of ( 'raditlonal art. However, it provides pro-vides interesting variety and tends 0 10 round out our exhibition. Above and to the left of the ""myosin, one's attention is at- k ine quality that many artists try for, but few achieve. Among the old favorites whom art lovers have appreciated and enjoyed in the past, one finds an unusual and arresting Costigan, called "Woman Boy With Calf." I Thieme has also provided us with a welcome surprise in his "Mt. Pleasant Street, Rockport," this being one of his brilliant, rare landscapes. Clarence Millet has provided us with a large, beautifully beauti-fully painted Southern landscape. Marie Hull has sent two very strong portraits, "Farmer" and "Interlude," in addition to a large landscape. Nell Walker Warner, Metteo San'dona, William Ritschel, all have submitted interesting contributions that will be enjoyable enjoy-able to most people. A new exhibitor this year, and one who adds interesting variety of media to our show, is Helmuth Naumer, a young German from Santa Fe. His "San Ildefonso Pueblo" Pu-eblo" illustrates a strong and ver-ile ver-ile type of pastel. It is rather unusual un-usual in that he has applied his color in as direct a manner as possible. With the exception of the sky, his painting has been done in direct simple strokes. On the whole, this painting has unusual strength for a pastel. Some interesting highlights of the south gallery are: "Amador and Bingo," by John Hubbard Rich of Hollywood. This piece should be especially interesting to those who enjoy technical excellence excel-lence in the painting of flesh tones, textures, etc. In the same gallery, J. H. Sharp, one of our foremost painters of Indian life, and the artist who painted last year's prize winner has an intimate inti-mate Indian study entitled "At a Pueblo Window." For those interested in the, unusual un-usual parts of our show, we have on display an interesting bronze portrait of George Bellows by 1 Sterling Calder. We also have two 1 wood-carvings by Mr. Allman of Provo. A variation in painting is to be found In the two paintings by Pop Chalee, an Indian woman , of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Before winding up our ramble I through the galleries, I'd like to ' focus attention on . an unusual - religious painting found on the south wall of the east gallery. This is "Supper Eternal," by F. Luis Mora. This painting is unusual unus-ual in idea as well as in the arrangement ar-rangement and color scheme. It is the type of painting which may not appeal at first sight but that arouses admiration after recurrent recur-rent observation. This painting has already received National recognition re-cognition in having won the Carnegie Car-negie Award at the National Academy of Design, one of the most exclusive shows in the United Unit-ed States. i . tracted by a modern color study known as "The Green Cloth," painted by Otis Oldfield. This picture pic-ture is painted entirely in green with the exception of one small area of red, whose obvious purpose pur-pose is to emphasize and make more vibrant the various values and intensities of green which comprises the rest of the painting. Nearby, one finds Jon Corbino's "Abduction," a picture that contains con-tains as much vibrant rythmic action as any canvas in the show. On the same wall are hung "Waterville Farm," by Chauncey F. Ryder, and "Girl With the Red Scarf," by Bernard Karfiol. The first will be extremely satisfying to the individual who likes a rather ra-ther free joyous type of expression. expres-sion. The latter is Interesting for Its fresh colors, and as an expression ex-pression of modern tendencies in portraiture. Visitors to the exhibit will not fail to see and be impressed by W. Lester Stevens' religious piece, "Christ on the Gaspe," also located lo-cated In the west gallery. On either side of the picture are paintings by two recognized Utah I artists: B. F; Larsen's "Prelude to . Evening," and J. T. Harwood's "Vineyards of Italy." Harwood's painting Is a rather good example exam-ple of impressionism in art. Nearby one finds two unobtrusive, unobtru-sive, but nevertheless appealing ; studies by Eugene Higgins of New ; York. They are "Frightenec I Children" and "Gathering Twigs.' ! They have a down-to-earth genu. |