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Show Centennial Art Show Opens Sunday, July 6 Approximately 300 Pictures By Utah Artists Seen At High School Art Gallery Open 2 To 8 P. M. Sunday, July 6 to July 28 An important event is scheduled to open in Springville in the form of a Centennial Art Show, featuring the work of Utah artists exclusively, according to members of the Springville Art committee, underj, whose direction the exhibit will be held. The Art Show will be conducted from Sunday, July 6, to July 28, from 2 until 8 p. m., daily on the second floor of the high school Art Building. Mrs. Mae Huntington, Hunt-ington, publicity director, will be in attendance at this time to explain ex-plain the pictures and tell something some-thing of the exhibiting artists. A preview of the Art Show indicates indi-cates that more than 300 paintings including those owned by the school, will be exhibited during the period. The visiting exhibitors have nearly 200 paintings hung, j Included among the exhibiting artists are many whose paintings j have highlighted the April Art Shows, while a number of new names are also seen for the first time in the centennial exhibif . Practically every major city in f the state is represented in the list of exhibiting artists, most of whom have entered as many as four paintings. Looking over the pictures entered en-tered for display, one sees a vari-( vari-( Continued on Page 6) "Centennial Art Show ( Opens Here Sunday (Continued on Page 6) ety of subjects employed, and the pictures are in many sizes. Significant, Sig-nificant, however, is the fact that many of the paintings seen in the centennial show, are a size which would look well in most homes. Many of the pictures will be sold during the show, Mrs. Huntington said. . A special feature of the Centennial Art exhibit will be a display of a group of paintings paint-ings by the well-known artist, Maurice Braun. These paintings paint-ings will be shown In a room apart from the Utah artists' exhibit. Sent by the artist's daughter, daugh-ter, Mrs. Charlotte Loring of Point Loma, Calif., the Braun collection will remain at the gallery over a period of six months. The centennial art-visiting art-visiting period offers a convenient con-venient timo for everyone to see them. The Braun pictures are not large and are, for the most part, landscapes done In subdued sub-dued colors and technique which has made this artist The Utah artists' centennial is unique in the fact that it .is he firs of is kind held in SpringviUe and is probably one of he largest featuring the work of Utah artists. art-ists. Among the better known exhibitors exhibi-tors who sent pictures early, are: B. F. Larson of Provo; Cornelius Salisbury, Rose Howard Salisbury Salis-bury and Florence war of Salt Lake City. The works of J. B. Fairbanks will also be seen during dur-ing the Art event. Adding a note of variety to the event are the pieces of statuary done by our own Hughes Curtis, while Alice Morrey Bailey of Salt Lake City has also entered four pieces. From the list of artists exhibiting exhibit-ing in the Centennial show, names will be selected to whom invitations invita-tions will be sent asking them to exhibit in the national April exhibit, ex-hibit, it is stated. It is expected that a large number num-ber of tourists and other visitors will visit the gallery during the Art Show. Four Sundays are included in-cluded in the visiting period as Sunday is a popular visiting day. In case anyone cannot visit the gallery at the specified time, entrance en-trance to the Gallery may be secured se-cured by calling Mrs. Huntington or Paul K. Walker, high school principal, chairman of the Art cCmmittee. |