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Art Museum Features Lectures By QlanviUeBy Alice Marie SelserOpening art exhibitions at SMU and at Fair Park give promise of an exhilirating and varied season. Tonight at 8 p. m, the SMU art department will present Dr. J. I. Glanville, historian of the SMU faculty, on the subject Almost Sunny Italy. Dr. Glanville’s subject will be in connection with the department's present exhibition of photographs of Italian cities, including Rome, Pisa, Milan, Venice and towns in Sicily. These pictures were given to the school by Mrs. Ethel Muse Gillespie from the private collection of William E. Muse and include some 132 books, 450 reproductions and photographs, 6,000 post cards, and 3,000 slides, some of which Dr. Glanville will use in his talk.John Knott, internationally known editorial cartoonist of The Dallas Morning News, will lecture at the request of SMU art department on Oct. 20. Eight of Mr. Knott’s war cartoons are now appearing at the Fair Park Art Museum. The eight originals to be seen in the Print Niche of the museum concern not only the battle of the continent (Berlin Reports Successful Disengagement, suggests the true nature of a German communique), but the war at home as well (Black Market, Dallas Master Plan and Remember How the Rabbit Lost That Race, pointing out the folly of complacency). They will remain on view through Oct. 24.Sunday will mark the formal opening of the new American Federation of Arts show at Fair Park, Texas Panorama, assembled by Jerry By waters, director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and on the SMU art faculty. Next Sunday will also mark the inauguration of the 1943-44 series of solo shows, with an exhibition of water colors by Artine Smith. A new exhibition of photographs by members of the Dallas Camera Club, and the large collection of Latin American photographs being circulated by the Pan American Union will also be events of Sunday, Oct. 10.A third lecture and reception open to art students and to the public by the SMU art department will be given by Mrs. Kay Vedder of Neiman-Marcus, authority on interior decoration, on Nov. 17.All of these talks are open to the public and will be made in the art department, third floor of Dallas Hall.
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Thu, Oct 07, 1943
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