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Show S. U.S. ART PROJECT SUBJECT OF MAGAZINE ARTICLE An interesting article appeared this week in the Pathfinder magazine, maga-zine, national publication with a circulation of more than 600,000, which gave considerable publicity to the Springville High School Art ! project. In connection with the article, a three-column picture was used, portraying the main gallery of i the Art building in which is seen i statues by Cyrus E. Dallin, and ? in the background a group of peo ple looking at pictures in the gallery. gal-lery. The article states: Springville, Utah (pop. 6,234,) ; started out with one painting, gift of a local artist, and built' it into a 170-canvas collection worth $150,000, won fame as "the art ! center of the Rockies." In 1903 Springville's John Hafen presented one of his paintings, ,j "The Mountain Stream," to the Springville high school, solicited J the aid of Utah artists in getting j more. It was slow going, took 1 four years to collect sixteen paint 's ings. Then a public showing warm- S ed townspeople to the project and 4 an annual prize of $150 was es- I tablished for the best painting, j Pupils made and sold candy, pop- corn ball, to raise half of the prize money, the school board chipped in the rest. April In Springville . . . ; In 1921 art-minded Springville staged its first Spring salon. It put Springville on the art map. Now a regular April event, the salon has presented 3,000 paintings paint-ings by artists from all over the United State. In 1937 the town erected an art gallery for its collection, which also includes sculture, with Cyrus E. Dallin, another Springville native na-tive son, the chief contributor. Dallin's statue, "The Pioneer Mother," for which his mother posed, stands in the city park to greet the 50,000 visitors Springville Spring-ville expects in 1946. |