THE FINE ARTS EXHIBITION is arranged in five major galleries.  They are Art Since 1950, American; Masterpieces of Art; Art of the Ancient East; Art Since 1950, International; and Northwest Coast Indian Art.

In the first section, Art since 1950, American, eighty paintings and thirty sculptures reflecting primarily the abstract expressionism in modern art have been selected for the fair by Dr. Sam Hunter, director of the Rose Museum of Art at Brandeis University.  The artists represented include Ben Shahn, Jackson Pollok and native Pacific Northwesterners Mark Tobey, Morris Graves Ken Callahan and Paul Horichi.

Many of the paintings in the exhibit Art Since 1950, International, selected by Willem Sandberg, director of the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam, have been completed within the past two years.  The collection of one hundred twenty paintings and thirty-four sculptures has been chosen to emphasize the mood and form of expression used by modern artists.

Seventy-two works hang in the Masterpieces of Art section.  dr. William M. Milliken, director emeritus of the Cleveland Museum of Art, assembled internationally famous paintings by such masters as Titan, Cezanne, Renoir, El Greco, Rembrandt and Winslow Homer.

Perhaps the most intriguing exhibit -- assembled for the first time -- is that of the Northwest Coast Indian Art.  Dr. Erna Gunther, director of the Washington State Museum, has gathered from around the world an outstanding collection of the unique and individual alistic art of the Pacific Northwest's coastal tribes.

The Seattle Art Museum has lent parts of its magnificent collection of Oriental art for the Art of the Ancient East section.  Adjacent to this area is the gallery of paintings from the museum's Mark Tobey collection.

The showings are open during the run of the fair, except for the Masterpieces of Art exhibit.  It is replaced September 4 with exhibits of contemporary art entitled Northwest Painting and Sculpture; Adventures in Art, and Countries of the Pacific Rim.