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Show Many Outstanding Artists To Exhibit Paintings In Annual Cedar City Show ' m Response of artists from all parts of the country to invitations to exhibit ex-hibit their paintings at the annual Cedar City Spring Art Exhibit has been very gratifying, according to Hazen Cooley, secretary of the Art Exhibit committee. This response he reports, ass'ures the committee that the number and standard of paintings to be shown this year will surpass any previous exhibit. The exhibit will open Sunday, April Ap-ril 18, and continue through Sunday. Sun-day. May 2, with the paintings hung in the Cedar high school gymnasium. gym-nasium. Two of the Important art galleries galler-ies of the country, one in Chicago and one In New York City, will send exhibits this year, It is understood. In addition Utah artists and those of the Western area generally will be better represented than ever before. be-fore. Among artists who have notl-, fled the "committee that they will participate are such painters as Vance Klrkland, Nellie May Manning. Man-ning. Lee ClarkA Rr-hnvW mla Kimbcrley, T. Milton Wassmer, Mlcheal Cannon. Rose Schnelther, Hazel Brooks and many others. The exhibit will open with a special spe-cial lecture Sunday afternoon, April Ap-ril 18, and on each of the two following fol-lowing Sunday afternoons, lecture programs will be featured. Avard Fairbanks, head of the Art Department Depart-ment of the University of Utah, and one of America's outstanding sculptors, sculp-tors, has accepted an invitation to appear on one of these progams. Floyd Cornaby, versatile artists and arts crafts leader at the Utah State Agricultural college, has also ao-cepted ao-cepted an invitation. Alvin Glttens of the University of Utah, perhaps one of Utah's two outstanding protrait painters, has also been invited to appear here in connection with the exhibit, but definite def-inite word has not yet been received re-ceived from him. The general committee in charge of the exhibit is L. C. Miles, chairman; chair-man; Ianthus Wright, Mary L. Bas-tow, Bas-tow, Roscoe G rover, Twain Uppetls, Wallace Osborne, Mrs. D. C. Dix, and Hazen Cooley. A number of sub-committees have also been at work for several weeks, and detailed detail-ed arrangements will be completed well In advance of the exhibit opening op-ening date. |