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Show Art Exhibit To Close Here Sunday P : 1 : - ' Pictures To Be Unveiled At Formal Exercises Friday . 5 j Exhibit To Remain Open Two Days Longer Than Regular Time To Include One More Sunday In Visiting Period In exactly four more days the 19 IS Springville High School Annual National April Art Exhibit will come to a close, members of the art committee announced today. One of the largest art projects in the west, the April show has attracted thousands of visitors in Utah and many have come from scores of other states. To include one more Sunday in the visiting period, the show will close Sunday evening, although al-though the formal closing program and purchase picture unveiling is scheduled Friday at 11 a. m., in the high school auditorium. In addition to announcement of the pictures to become a part of the permanent collection, the closing clos-ing program will include selections from the high school music department. de-partment. Also the prize essays will be read, the junior high school winner by Mrs. Mary Schwartz, and the senior prize entry by Mrs. Mae Huntington. Richard Gunn, curator, will give a short talk on the purchase pictures, and at least two art awards will be made. Annually the Wayne and Anna Johnson family gives a $100 scholarship to an outstanding out-standing art student, who plans to continue his art study in an accredited institution. This award will be made again this year, the presentation to be by Gene Johnson. Also, the Aureole club, local federated organization, will present a $25 award to an outstanding-art outstanding-art student, who does not necessarily have to be a senior student. Much interest centers around these two awards, which have been the means of stimulating interest in art work among the students, it-has it-has been pointed out. The program will be in charge of Paul Walker, president of the art board and chairman of the art committee. As plans were being completed for the closing program, interest runs high at the high school, in regard to which class qileen will be accorded the honor of unveiling the purchase pictures. During the past several weeks numerous entertainments en-tertainments have been given and other means have been employed by the classes to raise funds with which to place their art queen candidate can-didate at the head of the list and give her the honor of unveiling one of the pictures. The entertainment marking the close of the class fund-raising projects was held Tuesday, in the form of a circus by the senior high school, which boasted one of the largest crowds at any single attraction. The junior high school Spring Festival, also for the same purpose, was one of the big art fund festivities. As the exhibit draws to a lose, a number of well known artists, art critics and other noted individuals and groups have registered at the gallery. Included among these are Paul Luiirit., who, with Mrs. Lauritz, Lau-ritz, spent two days at the. Springville gallery. He complimented com-plimented highly the efforts of the Springville art committee commit-tee and was amazed at the quality, the size and scope or the Springville exhibit. He commented that the exhibit was much larger and much better than the Los Angeles exhibit. Jle has two paintings in the Springville show, "Passage "Pas-sage Eternal," being a special favorite of all visitors. Also he has a painting in the permanent per-manent collection, "Crashing Harmony," purchased by the school in 1931. Other notable visitors at the gallery the past few days were: Mr. and Mrs. Conway Nolan, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Nestler of Grand Junction, Colo. Both Mr. Conway and Nestler are artists and while it was not their first visit to the Springville exhibit, they commented com-mented on the exceptional fine show this year. (Continued on Pafe 12) Pictures to be Unveiled ' At Exercises Friday (Continued from Page One) A sidelight, interesting to all who saw the demonstration by the artist Peter Winthrope Sheffers, is announcement that the picture begun in the dem- onstration has been returned to Springville and is now hanging on the west wall of the South Gallery. One can hardly comment on any one phase of the current show without favorable mention of the students' Art Exhibit to be seen in the art room. Here may be seen an array of that which may some day bring more fame to Springville, Spring-ville, already established as the art center 'of the west. All who have seen these paintings have been astounded by the excellency of the work on display. So numerous were the entries in the student art show this year that an entirely new collection of paintings have now been hung in place of those exhibited earlier, and first visitors at the gallery are" urged to come again to see the pictures pic-tures now exhibited. |