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Show Federal Art Director Helps Display D.U.P. Relics Elzy J. Bird, federal art director, and wife came to St. George June 14, in keeping with an offer made last March by Mr. Bird to D.U.P. president, Hazel Bradshaw, and assisted in hanging the pictures and assembling the relics. Although the building has not been finished with the needed display cases, a number of show cases were obtained ob-tained locally by loan and the many relics brought to the building build-ing for its opening were arranged by the artist and his wife, who also gave the D.U.P. officers many helpful suggestions for the continuous con-tinuous exhibits. "Their assistance was greatly appreciated", says Mrs. Bradshaw, "for it requires some experience to know how to go about arranging arrang-ing a vast assortment of articles so as to display them artistically and advantageously." In returning to this city Director Direc-tor Bird also brought back with him the display of articles of Utah craftsmanship he took north in March for indexing under the Federal Art projects. This included Eardley jars, Washington Factory loom work, needle work and other (Continued on page four) Federal Art Director Helps Place Relics (Continued from first page) items. They also brought with them the artists' reproductions of the various articles and many persons per-sons were permitted to see these color plates which will later be sent for the files of the National Museum in Washington, D. C. Those who saw the plates were greatly' impressed with the care that is being taken by the artists in reproducing each item with accuracy ac-curacy and fineness in every particular. parti-cular. Particularly interesting were the textile pieces which were reproduced re-produced with such minute detail as to color, texture effect, and perfection per-fection that it was difficult to realize they were brush reproductions, reproduc-tions, say those who saw the color plates. Director and Mrs. Bird left Friday Fri-day noon for Salt Lake City going via Zion Park. They have taken back with them this time a large assortment of items once again for the Federal Art project. Such articles as quilts of various patterns, pat-terns, some made entirely from the old Washington Factory output out-put of materials, some more than 50 years old; wood carvings, stone carvings, carpet locally woven, jars and needlework. These will be returned later in the summer after they have been catalogued. |