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Show Thirteen Paintings, Five Ceramics Sold at Southern Utah Art Exhibit The 14th annual Cedar City, Spring Art Exhibit came to a close Sunday, and as usual many of the fine paintings exhibited will remain in this area to be addcci to the permanent collections collec-tions of individuals and institutions. insti-tutions. The exhibit, which hung in the College of Southern Utah field-house field-house for two weeks and attracted at-tracted hundreds of art lovers, old and young, from a wide area of .southern Utah, was brought to a close with a Sunday afternoon af-ternoon program. Roger Bailey, head of the department of architecture archi-tecture at the University of Utah, and a consistent exhibitor at the annual Cedar City show, was the guest speaker, giving a most interesting in-teresting discussion of "Art in Architecture." Thirteen paintings and five pieces of the ceramics display were sold during the exhibit and will remain in this area. Three paintings by Leslie Cope exhibited by the Van Cott Gallery Gal-lery of Provo, were purchased, one for a home and two others for local schools. Mr. Cope's "Bob Sleighing", the purchase of which was made possible by the generous gen-erous cooperation of the Van Cott Gallery, was purchased for the start of an art collection for the new Cedar City North Elementary school that will open next fall. It will undoubtedly be hung in a prominent place in the library of the new school. Another Cope painting, "Down County Lane," was added to the rapidly expanding art collection at the Cedar City High School. The third Cope painting "Windmill-England" was purchased by Bishop and Mrs. Vernee Frame. The College of Southern Utah added two more paintings to its collection. One was the Clarence Millett, New Orleans, painting, "This Is It-New Orleans," a work which has won Mr. Millett several sev-eral art prizes in the East and South. The other painting added to the college collection was "Park City Mine," by Montague Charman of Syracuse, N. Y. Both of the paintings exhibited by J. Richard Sorby of Denver, Colo., were purchased. The Paro- (Continued on Pag Two) ART EXHIBIT (Continued from Page One) wan Elementary School selected his 'Tenjamon," and the Cedar City High School added Sorby's "California Live Oak," to the school collection. The Parowan High School purchased "Let's Eat," by Dewitt Sorenson of Salt jLake City, and the Cedar East Elementary School added to the collection there with the purchase pur-chase of "Ravine in Winter," by Harry Leith-Ross of New Hope, Va. Three other paintings were purchased by local individuals, "Old Finto Home," by Gaell Lind-strm Lind-strm of Salt Lake City who will join the C S U art department ,ths fall, was purchased by Mr. land Mrs. Ray Knell. "Fall in the Valley," by Lee Clarke Schuyler of Albuquerque, N. M., was purchased pur-chased by Dr. and Mrs. M. F. Burgess, Bur-gess, and "Towering Thorn," by Frititjof Schroder of Fairmont, W. Va., was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Whetten. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Stephenson Stephen-son purchased "Summer in the Desert." by B. Y. Andelin of Og-den. Og-den. The painting will be hung in the Delta Relief Society rooms in honor of Mr. Stephenson's mother, Mrs. C. Usslear Stephenson. Steph-enson. Five pieces of the ceramics exhibit ex-hibit exhibited by Howard R. Mathews of Los Angeles, were purchased, three by Mrs. L. V. Broadbent, one by Carson Sprague and one by Mrs. Donald Mathews. |