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Show Art Show Opens March 30 . . i is , Has Third Team In State Tourney . . . More Than 200 Paintings Will Be Exhibited During April In 20th Annual National Art Show Art lovers of the state will view one of the largest and finest exhibits of representative paintings done by some of the best artists of the nation when the Twentieth Annual National Springville Art Exhibit opens here on March 30. :: : i a: x' V.' I (T f 1 Approximately two hundred paintings have been received, unpacked, un-packed, listed, and are now being hung for the coming show. The opening exercises will be held this year on Sunday, March 30, at 2 p. m. in the Art building, and tentative plans for the program pro-gram include 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. respec-tively. A variety of musical numbers num-bers is also planned. 1 By opening the exhibit on March 30, five Sundays will be included in the months exhibit. The generous representations from the large eastern galleries would of themselves make a worthy wor-thy exhibit; and these, added to the scores of individual entries, promises a show unsurpassed by the finest of former years. An entire new Eastern gallery, the Milch Galleries, is represented this year for the first time. In this group Leon Kroll, famous artist who has won numerous awards and prizes, is representative. His Coach Art Hughes portrait, "Mildred," will undoubtedly undoubt-edly be an outstanding painting in the exhibit. Other artists represented in the group from this gallery are Jerry Farnsworth, Helen. Sawyer, John Beauchamp, Sidney Laufman, and Francis Speight. Speight's paint- ' ing, "End of Jones Street," is an especially unusual modern treatment treat-ment of landscape. 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. Three fine paintings by F. Louis Morra,, whose canvas "Supper j Eternal," drew considerable attention atten-tion in last year's show, are en- i tered in the exhibit this year. The ! painting's are "Juan and Juanita," "Taos Incident," and "In the Land of Promise." His latter named painting is an especially outstanding outstand-ing portraiture of an immigrant woman, painted by the artist on Ellis Island. William R. Leigh, probably the most important painter of back- grounds in the United States, is r exhibiting an especially outstanding outstand-ing work in "Sanctity of Motherhood," Mother-hood," which Is expected to occasion oc-casion a great deal of comment in the coming show. The picture Is painted in the Navajo country and shows fine qualities of charncter in the face of an Indian mother who is with her child at a water hole in front of their hogan. Ethereal In quality, the figure of Christ is portrayed in the background. back-ground. Outstanding in the Vose group is a painting, "Still Life," by Robert Ro-bert Brackman, which Is one of the really good still life paintings. Others whose works are annually annual-ly expected with pleasurable anticipation an-ticipation are: Marguerite Pearson, Pear-son, Anthony Thieme, Maurice Braun, William Ritschel, John H. Costigan, John F. Carlson, Nell Walker Warner, II. Dudley Murphy, Mur-phy, and Robert Strong Woodward. |