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By GARY DEMUTH Salina Journal
LINDSBORG -- To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery, one new exhibit wasn't going to be enough.
Instead, gallery curator Ron Michael is installing six.
Three have been traveling exhibits of prints by the gallery's namesake, Birger Sandzen, the acclaimed painter, printmaker and Bethany College professor who died in 1954 at the age of 83.
Those exhibits will join the gallery's permanent exhibit of Sandzen's oil paintings and watercolors in the main gallery space.
"For our 50th anniversary, we thought it was a good idea to showcase some of the best work from these exhibits," said Michael, who has been curator at the gallery for 10 years.
The other three exhibits are collections that feature artwork by the late printmakers Herschel C. Logan, who lived in Salina, and John Taylor Arms. The John P. Harris Collection includes prints by Picasso, Renoir and Rembrandt.
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