Show Art Sand Paintings Displayed in Union Navajo Sand Paintings is an exhibit by Luther A. Douglas of Idaho which is currently being shown throughout the Union The unusual exhibition is very colorful and abstract in feeling with sand substituting for the usual oil or water Douglas has actually reproduced and adapted the Sand Painting art utilizing real sand pigments which he made Many attempts have been made to transfer this art to a medium applicable to contemporary but were unsatisfactory in most Douglas was the first to develop a technique which was successful in retaining the texture of the native the accurate color of the original and reduction in size without loss of fine His work is based on fifteen years' research and of authentic source material and firsthand field work on the Navajo Thirty-eight paintings are in the including some of the artist's very early works and also some exact Douglas obtained advice and assistance from museum and Indian authorities in order to duplicate the Navajo pictures as exactly as The paintings are mounted on boards with the sands kept intact by a special fixative developed by the They are in frame The exhibit is being sponsored on campus by the Cultural com- of the Union Building Barbara The exhibit is hung throughout the Union building and lists of names of the works are conveniently |