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Show Effie Huntington's photographs to be exhibited at Springville Art Museum A photograph exhibit featuring Elfie Huntington's work will open in Springville, at the Springville Museum of Fine Arts, 126 East 400 South, Springville, on February 12, 1988. The exhibit will again open in Salt Lake City, at the Atrium Gallery, City Library, 209 East 500 South, on April 18, 1988. Both openings will be held from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. and will feature lectures on Elfie Huntington and her work at 7:30 p.m. The exhibits and lectures are free and open to the public. The exhibits are sponsored by the Utah Women's History Association, the Utah Arts Council, the Springville Museum of Fine Arts, and the Utah Endowment for the Humanities. The Springville exhibit will run from February 12 to March 10, 1988, and the Salt Lake exhibit from April 18 to May 18, 1988. After June 1988, the exhibition will travel statewide under the auspices of the Utah Arts Council traveling exhibition program until June, 1990. Elfie Huntington, born in 1863, contract scarlet fever at the age of four and lost her hearing. She displayed an interest in art at a young age and became a pupil, apprentice, and later a protege of George Edward Anderson. In 1893, she opened a studio with another photographer in Springville, which remained vital into the 1940s. During Huntington's career, she documented the lives and activities of the people of Springville. She photographed women working in their homes, children playing in their yards, and men in the streets from proud merchants to collapsed drunks. Huntington's work is of artistic, historical, and social value. Copies of Huntington's photographs will be made for printing upon request. |