The Western Maine Art Group Festival will host an auction of fine art at 5 p.m. Friday, July 31 at  the Matolcsy Center, 480 Main St. in Norway. The auction will feature works from the Western Maine Art Group’s collection. Proceeds from the auction will benefit and support the continued development of quality arts in the community for young and old alike and to help pay for the Matolcsy Center’s new roof. Works to be auctioned include two landscape oil paintings of local subjects by Duncan Slade, including this one of “The Opera House,” a watercolor of the Gingerbread House entitled “Apartment Porches” by Kathleen Turner, a landscape in oil entitled “Mountain and Stream in the Oxford Hills” by Minnie Libby, paintings by Ethel Wright, Bill Paxton, Zilpha Plummer, Chris Sheridan and other artworks of local interest. Before the auction, the art will be displayed at Matolcsy Art Center from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., on Thursday, July 30 and the day of the auction.  For more information visit the Western Maine Art Group’s website: westernmaineartgroup.org.