Art: Pennsylvania at Work

In the auditorium of the Lehigh Valley Cooperative Farmers Association in Allentown, Pa. last week hung 290 paintings by 120 members of the Lehigh Art Alliance. The exhibits had one thing in common: each dealt with some phase of the dairy industry. There were pictures of barns, separators, milk sheds, bottling machines—and of course, cows. In style, the pictures ranged from primitives to abstractions; in quality, they ranged from pretty, good to just fair, but members of the Lehigh Valley Farmers Co-op were pleased and proud. Said one: "I guess an artist is...

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