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Show Gallery features Painting Exhibitions dominated by no single style, ideology, or aesthetic. Rather, the creative output has been in a state of flux with artists seeking out new modes of expression and perception. Developments and changes that formerly took several decades now take place in a matter of seasons. The works in this exhibition exemplify several of the many styles advanced in recent times. Concurrent with styles of objective realism and figurative painting, which have long characterized American art, are trends that are extensions ex-tensions of cubism, surrealism, dadaism, and other styles formulated earlier in this century. Other works shown attempt a total break with tradition and explore uncharted territory. Janet Lippincott, Fritz Acholder, Leonard Lehrer, Helen Frankenthaler and Alvin Gittins are among the artists represented in Contemporary American Paintings. The exhibition of Early Utah Landscape Painters reflects the strong tradition in landscape painting which can be traced back before Utah's statehood in 1896. Deftness of control, iruxxis of nature coupled with deferred influences from Europe, including the movements of French impressionism, im-pressionism, post-impressionism post-impressionism and realism, characterize the works in French academies at the close of the 19th century and thereafter. Represented in the exhibition of Early Utah Landscape Painters are George Beard, H. L. A. Culmer, Edwin Evans, John Hafen, J. T. Harwood, J. B. Fairbanks and others. The joint exhibitions will run through July 9. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays. The public is especially invited to see these two creditable exhibitions, Prof. Leek said. Currently on display in the j Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, Southern Utah State College, Cedar City, are two exhibitions of paintings. An exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings is a selection of twenty-two works from the permanent collection of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. A second exhibition is a selection of seventeen works by early Utah Landscape Painters from the permanent Utah state collection, Utah State Division of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City. According to Prof. Thomas A. Leek, the Contemporary Con-temporary American Paintings are recent acquisitions of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts made possible by generous support from the National Endowment En-dowment for the Arts, Washington, D. C. Included are paintings which exemplify the richness of invention characterizing contemporary American art. From the end of World War II until the present day, the work produced by American artists has been |