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Show Western Art Lecture in Midway By Jerry Springer During the early Westward movement and continuing to just past the closing of the American Frontier, a number of fine painters and illustrators of Western scenes emerged. Among the greatest were men such as George Catlin, Alfred Jacob Miller, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, Frederic Remington, and Charles Russell. . Each of these men contributed on canvas, in their own style and subject preference, the trans-Mississippi trans-Mississippi West as they saw and understood it. Catlin painted scenes of all the various Indian tribes he visited; Miller recorded on canvas the mountainman and fur trade period; Bierstadt and Moran concentrated their efforts on landscapes such as found in the Yellowstone region and the Sierra-Nevadas; and Russell and Remington are best known for their works dealing with the American cowboy. On Thursday, November 3rd, the Wasatch Historial Society and the Valley Arts Center will co-sponsor a very interesting and enlightening program dealing with several Western painters including those mentioned above. The lecturecolored slide presentation present-ation will be given by Ralph A. Britsch of Brigham Young University. Uni-versity. Professor Britsch, who has taught English and Humanities Human-ities for the past 39 years at BYU, has spent much of his life accumulating slides, prints, and personal histories of numerous American painters. He and his good wife Florence have visited the major museums, art galleries, and historical sites of the West and are very knowledgeable in this particular subject. The speaker, a resident of Midway and an enthusiastic member of the local Wasatch Historical Society, is currently completing research for publication publica-tion on Albert Bierstadt, his paintings, and early travels in the Western states and territories. The professor also has a number of publications to his credit, including a textbook on humanities human-ities (co-authoried with one of his sons) which is soon to be published. The program is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. on November 3rd at the old Midway School on the town square. This, of course, is the "home" of the Valley Art Center. Admission is free and refreshments will be served. The public is cordially invited to attend and learn a little more about the early painters of the American West and see reproductions repro-ductions of their best and most famous paintings. |