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A traveling art exhibit of the Arkansas Oil Painters and Sculp tors’ Association will be shown at the University of Arkansas here during January, it is announced by Ralph Hudson, head of the art department. More than half of the paintings composing the collection deal with the Ozark mountain region, a fact the artists say “which indicates a growing interest among artists in this section.” Two of the pictures to be shown here are prize-winning paintings. They also deal with the Ozarks as subject material Freund Paintings One of the two outstanding paintings is by Elsie Bates Freund, wife of H. Louis Freund, noted Carnegie artist now at Hendrix college, Conway. The prize was awarded in a state-wide contest for oil painters in Arkansas held by, the Little Rock Fine Art club and the Hen drix art department with judges being Adrian Brewer, outstanding Arkansas artist; George B. Rose, noted art critic and collector, and Arthur Haliburton. Mrs. Freund’s picture is entitled “Cotton Gin.” Mr. Freund, in Arkansas on a Carnegie fellowship, has been de voting himself largely to study of the native Ozark and Arkansas culture which he finds is disap pearing rapidly and which he has been for several years emphasiz ing need for an artistic record of it, to achieve which he has estab lished in Northwest Arkansas at Hatchet Hall, former home of Car rie Nation at Eureka Springs, an art colony for all artists wishing to preserve the characteristics of this region. The exhibit will appear in Ar kansa, in Fayetteville, in Arka delphia, at the county museum at Helena, at Conway, at Pine Bluff and also will be sent to Springfield, Mo. Work of some local artists is included.
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Fayetteville Northwest Arkansas Times
Fayetteville, Arkansas, US
Mon, Dec 18, 1939
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