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Show Individual Buyers to Get Early Preview of Annual Art Exhibit Last minute preparations for1 the 13th annual Cedar City Spring Art Exhibit, which opens officially Sunday, April 12, are being rushed in order that two local previews of the exhibit can be held on Friday and Saturday nights. Paintings by outstanding artists ar-tists from all parts of the country coun-try have been received, unpacked unpack-ed and numbered, but none will ! be hung until Friday morning, I because the hall is being used tonight for the annual Freshman Prom at the Branch Agricultural college. The prom decorations will be removed after the dance tonight, and hanging of the paintings will get under way early Friday. Two advance showings of the exhibits are designed for t he i benefit of local residents interested inter-ested in purchasing paintings for their homes. Institutions usually make their selections on the opening day of the exhibit, which frequently results in paintings that may have been purchased by individuals go to the institutions. institu-tions. The preliminary showing gives the individual purchaser a chance to make his selections first. The exhibit this year will feature fea-ture paintings for the home, and as a result it Is expected that Interest In-terest will surpass that of previous pre-vious years, although the response re-sponse to the exhibit has always been very satisfactory. Tho ovhihit which will be hung in the Women's gymnasium at the Branch Agricultural college, will be officially opened Sunday afternoon at an opening program, pro-gram, featuring Prof. George Dibble Dib-ble of the University of Utah art faculty, as the guest speaker. His subject will be "How to Select Se-lect a Tainting for Your Home", and should prove exceptional interesting to local art patrons. Roscoe Grover, former Cedar City resident who now resides in Salt I Lake City will introduce Prof. Dibble, and also aiscuss oneuy some of the paintings exhibited, 'and the show as a whole. The exhibit will continue until April 26, with programs scheduled sched-uled on each Sunday afternoon. Dean Fausett, one of Utah's most prominent artists, is scheduled to appear as guest speaker or iAoril 19. A pnnel discussion will I feature the final Sunday program. pro-gram. In order that more people may have the opportunity of visiting the exhibit this year, arrangements arrange-ments have been made to keep the exhibit hall open throughout through-out each day of the two week event. In the past the exhibit has been opened during the afternoon after-noon and evening on Sunday, hut only during the evening on week days. This year, however, the exhibit will be open from -9 a. m. until 10 p. m. each week day.an d from 2 p. m. to 10 p. m. on Sundays. This means that the hall will be open 13 hours a day throughout the week, as compared to two hours a day in past years. Guide service and special lectures lec-tures will be provided for groups who wish to visit the exhibit at any time. Arrangements for the purchase of any painting can be made by contacting any member of the finance and sales committee, including in-cluding Ianthus Wright, Hazen Cooley, Dr. R. W. Farnsworth, Mrs. Forrest Hunter, Howard Dal-ley, Dal-ley, L. A. Whetten or Mrs. A. W. Stephenson. ( Most of the popular artists who have exhibited here in the past will again have paintings on display, and in addition a number who have never exhibited exhibit-ed here will be represented in this year's event. With the wide representation enthusiastic response re-sponse is expected from people from all parts of southern Utah. |