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For the week of April 9 - 15, 2003

Arts and Entertainment

Hailey artist on
White House roster


By DANA DUGAN
Express Staff Writer

For the White House’s annual exhibition of painted eggs, Hailey artist, Ginna Parsons Lagergren was commissioned to submit an Idaho egg. The tradition for each state to submit a decorated egg was initiated in 1994 by former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The American Egg Board sponsors the four-week display in the White House. Every year, each state and the District of Columbia may submit one egg to the display. The winning artists and two guests are invited to a special tour of the White House and the display held in April. Afterwards, the eggs are displayed at the Presidential Library in its permanent collection.

Entries must represent a special feature of the state and be painted on a large white chicken egg with the contents removed.

Lagergren painting, "The Heart of Idaho," depicts the Sawtooth Mountains, the Salmon River, a syringa bush, which is the state flower, and other wildflowers. Also in the painting are a Labrador and a golden retriever eyeing birds, including a bald eagle in flight in a clear Idaho sky.

Having lived in the Wood River Valley since the early 1970s, Lagergren was inspired by the sites she has come to know well from camping, kayaking, hiking and biking in the mountains.

"The mountains in the heart of Idaho are a playground where various wildlife and recreationalists play," Lagergren said.

Regulations for the annual display dictate that no bases, stands, hangers, or attachments are permitted and that the small end of the egg should be facing up. Lagergren’s egg was painted with oil paint over gesso and epoxy and finished with acrylic varnish.

Lagergren and other egg artists will be present at a reception at the White House with First Lady Laura Bush on April 14.

 

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