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Show Painled Pony Gallery Is Newly Opened Art Shop in Park City and the University of Utah. When asked where the name "The Painted Pony" came from, Jim told an amusing tale. Jim had two uncles and when they were little boys they were always dreaming of riding a pony they would argue over who was to ride this imaginary pony they really fought about it-this "pony" became sort of a symbol for the family like a "ship coming in. And so , when Jim was finally able to open his shop, it was his "ship coming in" he finally had what he'd dreamed about all these years, so what more natural than to call it "The Painted Pony Gallery"? A really special shop has just opened in Park City. The Painted Paint-ed Pony, an art gallery owned and operated by James R.Stewart. R.Stew-art. Jim is well known around town, he's lived here for more than five years and he says this shop is sort of a dream come true. He's wanted a shop on Main Street ever since he moved here but he's been teaching atSkyline High School in Salt Lake City-he City-he is the head of the Art Department De-partment there and just never got around to it. Last year he bought the building at 309 Main Street and now is in business. He will have his potter's wheel in the window, and will carry not only pottery items but paintings and weavingsplus certain items from other artists. He has at the moment some very unusual candle holders. hold-ers. Jim says he wants to make his shop "an asset to Main Street!" Jim was born in Bingham Canyon and had a grandmother, Annie Backlund, who came to Park City from Finland in 18 94. She was a young lady of 18 and came to live with an uncle here but worked for a Mrs. Oland who ran a Norwegian Boarding House on Rossi Hill. Jim Stewart is a likeable chap and unusually talented. He received his degree at Pacific Pac-ific Luthern University in Tacoma, Washington, and did graduate work both at Berkeley |