An exhibit of artwork by Shirley Ardell Mason, the Lexington woman better known as dissociative personality disorder patient Sybil, will be on display next weekend in Midway. About 35 works completed by Mason from 1944 to 1965 will be on view as The Hidden Paintings: The Life of Sybil Revealed , Friday through Sunday at the Thoroughbred Theatre, 127 East Main Street.

The exhibit is the largest showing of Mason’s work to date and will include paintings not exhibited before, said Jim McDaniel, part owner of the collection. Mason — whose case of 16 personalities was made famous by the best-selling 1973 book by Flora Rheta Schreiber and the 1976 TV movie starring Sally Field as Sybil and Joanne Woodward as her psychiatrist, Dr.

Cornelia Wilbur — grew up in Minnesota, spent 11 years in therapy in New York and lived in Lexington for more than 20 years before she died in 1998 at her home on Henry Clay Boulevard. Wilbur, the psychiatrist who helped her meld the personalities into one, was a University of Kentucky professor. Several events will surround the exhibit. An opening reception will be 5:30 to 9 p.m. Friday; a screening of the 1976 movie Sybil will be at 2 p.m.

Saturday; and screenings of the documentary The Hidden Paintings: The Art of Sybil will be at 5 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. The exhibit will close at 6 p.m. Sunday. All events are free. ‘MUSIC OF COAL’ NOTED Music of Coal, a CD-book package chronicling the development of music concerning the Appalachian coal industry, has been shortlisted for three Grammy Award nominations.