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Show Crawls mim mikihM Over 500 art patrons at opening Sunday With the refgistration of approximately 500 visitors to the Springville Art Gallery Gal-lery Sunday, members of the art board termed the opening of the 44th annual national April art exhibit one of the most successful and well attended in the history of the gallery. Members of the board were on hand to greet the visitors and artists were in attendance during the day to answer questions or com-ine.it com-ine.it on the paintings and sculpture work displayed. Refreshments were served from 2 until 5 p.m. Many groups, civic and educational have made reservations res-ervations to visit the art gallery during the month. pieces of art including nine fine sculpture entries on ' exhibit. Many ol the paintings paint-ings are for sale and information infor-mation concerning prices and other details are available avail-able at the desk. Outstanding exhibit Severl large eastern galleries gal-leries are represented in the exhibit including Midtown Galleries of New York, Blue Door Gallery of Taos, N. M., and others. Artists are xhibiting from states throughout the nation from the east to the west coast. There are many former for-mer exhibitors and a number of new names are added to the roster of exhibitors this year. Utah artists are also well represented. Attendants will be at the gallery throughout the visiting vis-iting hours from 10 a.m., to 9 p.m., daily including Sundays. Sun-days. Events planned Aside from scheduled tours, a number of major events are scheduled at the gallery during the month, beginning with the Federated Federat-ed Art Club program held last evening at which Robert W. Smedeley of Salt Lake City, art supervisor, teach er and critic, was the guest speaker. The All-State Kiwanis Banquet is planned during the month as are the art ball, the Little Art Theatre production and other major events, all of which will attract at-tract large crowds of local and out-of-town guests to the art exhibit. Those who have visited the exhibit declare it to be one of the best in years. There is a total of 228 |