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Show Art Directors Visit In St. George Thursday Elzy J. Bird, director of the Utah Art Center, accompanied by Mrs. Bird, and by Hogan Caheil of New York City, national director of the Federal Art projects were St. George visitors last Thursday afternoon. They were enroute back to Salt Lake City from a tour of Bryce, Zion and Grand canyons. This was Mr. Caheil's first visit to southern Utah. While here the group took a brief tour of the city and visited the McQuarrie Memorial hall and Temple Information bureau. Mr. Caheil was deeply impressed by what he termed the "elaborate architectural art" of pioneers and says he plans to return for a longer visit as soon as time permits. per-mits. He noted with interest the many tools, implements, hand work and relics of pioneer days and requested that an index be made of as many pieces of early homespun as can be found in this section, the color plates to be used in compiling a special folio (Continued on page three) Art Director Here (Continued from first page) of textile prints. They are also desirous of determining de-termining whether or not there are any of the tombstones in the local cemetery which were cut by Peter Ostensen. The stone and wood carving piece in the. Memorial Mem-orial hall which show his fine artistry gives them a desire to make if possible a folio of color plates of that pioneer's work. The stone and wood carvings of the late George Brooks will be likewise like-wise treated. In the interest of these two projects all those who have homespun home-spun pieces of early days, or those who can identify the tombstones made as explained are requested to communicate with Mabel Jarvis. Mr. Bird will return early in October to arrange for the sketching of these items. On this trip, Mr. Bird brought with him the famous St. George Relief Society Friendship quilt pieced of silk, and elaborately embroidered. em-broidered. It has been indexed under the Federal Art's projects and has been the subject of much interest. It was auctioned off at the County Fair in 1899 and purchased pur-chased by a salesman who has since contributed it to the Mc-Quarrie Mc-Quarrie Memorial hall collection through Mrs. Odium. A FINE GIFT FOR VtfJ SOME rQ'TJ ONE v A SUBSCRIPTION 7 XTo THIS NEWSPAPER Barber. Mrs. Bruce Snow moved to St. George on Monday for the winter. The following students spent the week-end here with their parents from St. George where they are attending school: Miss Lois Gardner, Orlo and Eldean Hall and Ted Snow. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Beckstrom and Reuben Gardner spent Thursday Thurs-day in St. George on business. Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Bentley and Mr. and Mrs. Parley Lang spent several days here last week visiting relatives and gathering fruit. |
