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June 3, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Story by: Linda Jerke

Barton Community College’s Shafer Gallery will commemorate the college’s 40th anniversary by exhibiting works of 40 artists from the college’s permanent collection. The exhibit titled “40 Years, 40 Artists” will have an opening reception from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, June 6, and the summer exhibit will continue through Aug. 27.

This exhibition presents 40 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures from the Barton Community College Permanent Collection. This collection, which originated with the 1981 donation of the C.E. Denman Collection, now has more than 800 works of art, including 28 of Gus Shafer's bronzes and more than 100 works by Great Bend native Charles B. Rogers. The collection also contains masterpieces by such artistic giants as Chagall, Matisse, Picasso, Audubon, Sandzén and many others.

Featured in this summer exhibit are works of Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry and others to make the total of 40 artists for the college’s 40 years.

The Shafer Gallery’s summer hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, and Sundays by appointment for group tours. The summer hours will end Aug. 8, when the gallery will resume its regular hours.

All Shafer Gallery exhibits are presented in part by the Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

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