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Show ANNUAL ART SHOW OPENS s Gallery Opened to Visitors Friday; Program Monday More Than 200 Paintings To Be Seen In 1946 National Art Event Twenty-second Art Exhibit Termed Best Yet With Many Former Ehibitors As Well As New Artists Represented In Current Show An atmosphere of eager expectancy pervades this community with announcement of the opening of the annual an-nual April Art Exhibit this week-end. The gallery will be opened to visitors on Friday and throughout the Aoril Art Month, while the formal opening program is scheduled W Monday at 1 1 a. m., in the high school auditorium. t The opening program, to which students and the general public is invited, will feature several short talks by members of the Art committee com-mittee who will explain briefly some of the paintings in the current cur-rent exhibit. There will also be some musical numbers, with W. W. Brockbank, principal, to be in charge. The Art galleries will be open daily, including each Sunday, from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m., and someone wiill be in attendance to regiser visitors and explain if desired, the various paintings. Catalogues will be available at all times. Of more than 300 paintings sent to the 1946 show, approximately 205 have been hung and all of the galleries as well as the halls and other available space in the Little Theater is completely filled. According Ac-cording to art critics and others who have had a preview of the paintings, this year's show is the best yet in general quality of the work exhibited. After a four-year cancellation of the Art Shows, artists and art fans are looking forward to the big event with even more enthusiasm enthus-iasm than in previous years. Many individuals, including prominent artists, have written to signify their intention of visiting the gallery gal-lery during the month and many clubs and other organizations have made reservations for special spec-ial meetings in the Art gallery. Art visitors will find in this year's show, paintings of variety in subject matter as well as of various types of art. The work of former exhibitors will be readily read-ily recognized with many fine entries en-tries while the work of several new artists has also been hung in the current show. John E. Costigan, an old favorite, favor-ite, has entered a choice painting again this year to be seen on the west wall of the south gallery. As is his custom of long standing, he has sent but one entry. Anthony Theime, whose landscapes land-scapes have won a place of high esteem among art critics, is represented rep-resented in the exhibit this year by a lovely autumn scene. A striking painting portraying i a dramatic storm scene, as well a one other of a more serene nature na-ture picturing a mother and child, are Higgins' offerings to the cur-, cur-, rent show. , Nell Wtfiker Warner, who Is known by art lovers for her beau-l beau-l tiful still life paintings, is reprc- sented in this Spring's exhibit I (Cortinued on Page Ten) I i More Than 200 Paintings To Be Shown At Exhibit (Continued from Page One) with other offerings of equally fine quality. ! A large canvas which will at-' at-' tract the attention of visitors and j which is hung on the north wall of the large upstairs gallery is, j "Ronda," by Marguerite Pearson, I who has also entered a painting ; of entirely different type entitled "My Studio Window, Winter." Among the new artists whose work is predicted to grow in im-I im-I portance is Pfc. C. LeRoy Morse, I who is represented in the current j exhibit by a striking scene entitled, en-titled, "Transportation", or "Boston "Bos-ton and Albany Train Yards, Boston, Bos-ton, Mass." This painting, according to word received by Mrs. Mae Huntington of the high school art committee, was selected by a jury of Boston critics as their choice among 260 entries submitted to the exhibit in the Jordan Marsh Art Galleries. The painting, iri oil, represents a scene in the Boston and Albany railroad yards at Huntington Ave. painted by the artist from his apartment window. For this entry he was awarded the Richard Mitten Mit-ten award medal and a check of $100, when this picture was judged judg-ed the best in the show. Indicating that every day will be a popular one for visitors at the local galleries, are the numerous num-erous inquiries being received daily concerning special tours and dates for club meetings. Among those which have already made reservations for conducted tours or visits are: Orem Women's club, Hafin-Dallin club, Kiwanis, Pari Passu club, Aglaian club of Spanish Span-ish Fork, Fine Arts, B.Y.U. Faculty, Fac-ulty, Soroptomists, Pleasant Grove 'Faculty, Delta Kappa Gamma, Amgo Mis, Aureole Club, Bear River high school, Mother Study club, State Nurses Ass'n., Fine Arts of Provo, Readers Guild, of Provo, Federated Clubs Tea, County D. U. P., Utah Association Associa-tion of School Secretaries. |