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Show ART EXHIBIT OPENS SUNDAY V Gallery Opened To Visitors Sunday; Program Tuesday More Than 200 Pictures On Exhibit In Centennial Art Event Many New Exhibitors As Well as Former Favorite Favor-ite Artists Represented in 1947 Exhibit; Pictures of Every Size, Description To Be Seen The Li ggest Centennial Art event of the year will open in this city Sunday, when more than 200 paintings, comprising com-prising the twenty-third Annual National Art Exhibit, will 'be on display at the Sprmgville high school Art Building. The exhibit will be open to the public every day, including Sundays, Sun-days, from March 30 through the entire month of April, from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. A member of the Art committee will be on hand, at special spe-cial request, to explain the paintings paint-ings and give something on the life of the exhibiting artists. Members of the Art committee, and others who have seen a preview pre-view of the exhibit, are of the opinion opin-ion that this is the best show and perhaps the largest, of any yet held here. A variety of subjects have been used by the exhibiting artists, and there are paintings of every size, in still-life studies, landscapes, portraits, por-traits, marine scenes, and modern arrangements. While the paintings representing represent-ing the modern trend of art will undoubtedly be the subiect of some adverse comment, these pictures represent an interesting part of the exhibit. There are to be seen many interesting portraits and the still-life studies are among the most beautiful. Landscapes, always al-ways popular, occupy a goodly portion por-tion of the galleries. Among the most interesting entries en-tries this year are two paintings portraying Dutch interiors. Painted Paint-ed by the famous Dutch painter and portrait artist, Cornelius Zwaan, these paintings are considered con-sidered the best in the show. They are hanging on the north wall of the East Gallery. A new exhibitor in Springville, Zwaan is reported to be one of the greatest portrait painters of our day, and he is recognized aa the greatest living painter of the simple sim-ple life of the Dutch people. The pictures which he has in the Springville show are among those painted on a return trip to Holland Hol-land before the war, and both are representative of his fine Dutch interior scenes, portraying a Dutch mother and children. Art visitors will also be attracted attract-ed by the entries of Gerard Curtis Delano who is a new exhibitor. His "Navajo,", a vividly colored Indian picture hanging on the north wall of the East Gallery, is one of the highest valued pictures in the gallery. gal-lery. This artist, who received his training from prominent artists at the Art Students, League of New York, is said to paint his Indian pictures from direct contact. Although Al-though Indians are his favorite subject, he is also represented in the show by a somewhat different canvas entitled "Desert Thunder-head," Thunder-head," a rather large picture hanging hang-ing in the South Gallery. R.obert Strong Woodward's entries en-tries in the April show are among the finest. A painter of New England Eng-land farms and hills, one of his pictures of medium size hung on the west wall of the West Gallery, is typical of this artist's talent and will undoubtedly be a favorite of Art visitors. It portrays an old barn painted red, with contrasting deep blue hills in the background. Although this artist, confined to a wheelchair since early manhood, often paints the same subjects, he seems to find a fresh approach to give individual distinction to each picture. lie paints landscapes directly di-rectly from nature, first making a charcoal skotch on stretched canvas, can-vas, working directly from the (Continued on Page Ten) PICTURE ACQUIRED (Continued from Page One) He studied at the National Academy Acade-my of Design for four years, was j for a year a student under William ' M. Chase, and then went abroad for study. He was a member of many art clubs, both in the East and the West, won many exhibition exhibi-tion awards, and was recognized as a muralist and portraitist, as I well as for his fine, true landscape impressions. "Foothills" is one of his choice interpretations of the California scene, a spacious canvas in which bright green trees, summer sky, and mountain ranges make a lyric composition expressive of his love for the Western countryside) his appreciation of the subtleties of its landscape. It bespeaks of the ser-renity ser-renity which he sought in art, as in his life. It is an expression in paint of his philosophy of life expressed ex-pressed in his words: "To me all expressions of life are Divine, a procession of entities moving through a vast variety of experience. experi-ence. Perhaps that is why I feel serene in the fact of life and try to express it in my work." |