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Show Plans Progress For Opening Of Annual National Art Exhibit Formal Opening Set For Friday, March 29; Show Will Continue Through April; Larger Exhibit And More Visitors Will Feature 1946 Art Event ' Plans are fast nearing completion for the opening of Springville's annual national art show to he held during April at the high school art building, according to Mrs. Mae Huntington of the art committee. t Formal opening for the big event, which in pre-war years, has attracted some 50,000 visitors to this city during the art month, is set for Friday, March 29, and will continue until April 30. The annual art event, which has attracted the attention of art lov-, lov-, ers throughout the United States, and is reported to be the largest event of its kind in the west, was cancelled during the past three years due to war restrictions. It is being resumed this year with added interest and prospects for an even larger display of the work of some of the most prominent artists in the country. From approximately 250 invitations invita-tions sent by the art committee to prospective new artists as well as former exhibitors, more than a hundred have already indicated their intention of sending paintings paint-ings to the 1946 art exhibit. Included among artists whose pictures will be seen in this year's national display are E. W. Red-field, Red-field, one of the most famous landscape artists in America who several years ago had two pictures pic-tures in the Springville exhibit. John Sloan, a former exhibitor and one of the best known modernistic mod-ernistic painters, will be represented repre-sented in the 1946 show, also the work of Mary Blumenschein, known for her western scenes, will be seen. Art enthusiasts will be pleased to again see the work of such noted artists as Wm. Ritshel, Robert Rob-ert Strong Woodward, Clarence Millet, Nell Walker Warner, John Hubbard Rich, Leland Curtis, Matteo Sandona, Emerson Lewis, Jane Freeman, Rudolph Ingerle, Earl M. Reed, Emil A. Gruppe, Arthur J. Hammond, Fera Web-' Web-' (Continued on Page 12) sillon, Ohio; McBeth, KrauShaar Grand Central and Downtown . New York City. 01 In addition to the national!,, known artists, Utah artists man of whom have gained prominent since the last Springville exhibit will be well represented in th' coming art event, according t! ' members of the art committee ' ' Exhibiting interest in the Ami ' art show, many clubs and other organizations have already asked for dates on which they mb tour the gallery. Also several in. formation travel bureaus and other oth-er organizations have made it quiries regarding the opening and other details of the event. The exhibit will be open from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m, including Sunday, Sun-day, and someone will be in at-tendance at-tendance upon request to explain the paintings or give any infor. mation regarding the art project in Springville The art committee has also had a number of catalogues cata-logues printed which are avail-able avail-able and these give a list of paint-ings paint-ings together with a number of illustrations and a brief history of the project and something on the life of artists whose pictures have become a part of the permanent collection. PLANS PROGRESS FOR OPENING OF ART EXHIBIT (Continued from Page 1) ber Shear, John E. Costigan, D. B. Stuber, Freemont S. Ellis. Walter E. Baum, two of whose pictures occupy a prominent place in the high school's permanent art collection, having been purchased at previous shows, will be among this year's , April art exhibitors. Also, Arthur Hill Gilbert, whose "Near Monterey," was a Ranger fund contribution to the Springville Spring-ville collection. Will ho.rcni-ant ed, as will Marguerite S. Pearson, whose "Snowbound," is a favorite picture in the permanent collection. collec-tion. W. Lester Stevens, whose "New England Farmyard," occupies occu-pies a place in the permanent collection, col-lection, will send paintings for the April show, as will Otis Oldfield Bernard Karfoil and Charles Bol-shius, Bol-shius, who will be among the new exhibitors. In addition to the many individual indiv-idual artists expected to send representative rep-resentative paintings, several of the largest galleries in the country will send pictures including the Vose gallery, Boston, Mass., Sten-dahl Sten-dahl of Los Angeles, Calif.; Mas- |