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Show "THE PIONEERS" - "'''"-.".. v; " " , V V "The Pioneers" Shown in Painting JAMES M. SESSIONS, famous American contemporary artist, attracted by the romance, the spirit and the traditions of the development of the great west and Utah in particular, has just cumpieieu a mosr Deautiiui painting depicting the trek of the Pioneers on their history-making history-making migration to Utah. This wonderful picture and accurate ac-curate reproductions of it will be shown in connection with the Utah Centennial and the showing show-ing will be the National Premier of the picture, after which it will be exhibited in all parts of the nation. Mr. Sessions has shown in beautiful paintings, many e-vents e-vents in the course of American history. He was commissioned by the U. S. Navy Department to record in paintings, some of the heroism and action of our battle ' fleets during World War II. He also did the much-publicized i "Jeep Series" during the recent war. His painting of the Pioneers Pio-neers is a sympony of exquisite colors, revealing the glory of the heavens, the beauty and yet the ruggedness of nature, and re-picting re-picting the determination and the stalwartness of the men and women who were seeking peace and freedom in a great wilderness, wilder-ness, which through their initial efforts, sacrifice and vision has in time become a great empire as we know it today. Mr. Sessions' paintings have been featured in "One man" shows in the country's leading art gallaries, including the Metropolitan Met-ropolitan Museum in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago. |