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Show ON LAST DAY OF ART SHOW University of Utah Art Department Member to Deliver Final Lecture Sunday afternoon, May 1 at 2 o'clock, LeConte Stewart, Stew-art, department of art, University of Utah, will be the guest speaker in the final day of the 15th annual Cedar City Art Exhibit, according to Dr. Reed W. Farnsworth, ChaiThenprogram will be in the college of Southern Utah fieldhouse where the 200 painting exhibit is hung and the final lecture by Stewart will delve Into the subject, "Art, a Vital Force in Living." Everyone is urged to attend and view the exhibit. It will close Sunday evening at 10. Each day the exhibit is open to the public for private viewing from 2 to 10 p. m., according to Mrs. Boyd Paulson, president of the Fine Arts Guild. The guild has furnished conducted tours throughout the exhibit, which .opened on April 17. Guest Speaker Sunday afternoon, April 24, Mrs. Grayce C. Solomon, past president of the Utah Creative Artists in Salt Lake City, appeared appear-ed in a public lecture handling the subject "Modern Art Trends." Mrs. Solomon told art patrons of this area that there will always al-ways be modern art and she predicted pre-dicted that a major art movement move-ment will come from this country. coun-try. "Modern art," she declared, "is a message of the ages, a search for freedom of expression and for perfection of technique." Following the lecture a lively discussion was held with other artists, exhibiting at the show, participating. One of the Best According to Dr. Farnsworth 'the 15th annual showing has proved to be one of the most popular pop-ular in the history of the show. The practice of including a life's sketch of the participating artists ar-tists has proved exceedingly popular, pop-ular, he said. Another innovation in the show this year is the balloting for favorite fav-orite picture by patrons. Each patron pa-tron who attends has been asked to ballot for the first and second choices of those paintings exhibited. ex-hibited. SDonsors expect to gain valuable information as to local appreciation through this project. pro-ject. Total assured sales, as of this writing, were in the amount of $1,395 in seven purchases, according accord-ing to Ianthus Wright, chairman of the finance committee. How-ever, How-ever, most of the schools who plan purchases, have not yet made their selections. In addition, he stated, several Individuals have been contem- (Continued on Page Eight) ART EXHIBIT Continued from Pag 3 One) plating purchases and will probably prob-ably make them before the exhibit exhi-bit ends. Top purchase of the exhibit to date is Edith Hamlin's ''Land of the TJavajos" by the Southern Utah Clinic, Including Dr. Reed 7. Farnsworth, Dr. L. V. Broad-bent Broad-bent and Dr. P. K. Edmunds. Mr. and Mrs. L. Robert Gardner Gard-ner purchased the painting "Stu-dy "Stu-dy of a Girl" by Alvin Glttins to top Individual purchases at this time. Other purchases that have lxen made include: "Aspens in Autumn." by Mr. and Mrs. Dan Jones. $100; "Our Land," by Paul Salisbury, North Elementary, 5300; "Winter Scene" by Roscoe A. Grover, Cedar City Junior High School, $125; "Serenity Following Storm," by Eve Drewelowe, Millard Mil-lard High School. $70, and "Wind Jinl "Sand" bv Mac Schweitzer, BDr.XuV. Droadbent, $50. |
