Show 4 4 STORIES ABOUT UTAH ARTISTS I This Department Is Conducted By the Ogden ArtI Art Society to Inform About I in the Art World I JOIL JOHN LIDGE I IJohn John was born April 17 1936 6 at Wes mouth a a noted sea seaport 1183 port on the southwest est coast of Eng Ing- Ingland England land EvincIng nt itt an early arly age aee a decided passion for tor art rt his 10 o lo 0 or of pictures woos WM so great that he frequently make inake the tho round of ot the tho picture shops of or his lots nathe e town eager to contemplate the beautiful In at now new production chanced to be bo on exhibition Reared sex sei shore hI his mind learned to nature In Its subtle subtle- ct eit phases and tho the Invigorating Impulses thereby acquired have given him hint a degree of ot energy that hn has stood him In good frood stead In hi his later life lito Mr was not only a Good cool painter but he ion was as wasa a 0 of f and pure taste To one ono In whom horn such are Inborn the tho effects of or early arly impressions found amon among the val Ing scalier seener of ot a tine fine sea shore are of ot lasting benefit benert A crude and nd howl mind mil may rarely even evenIn evenIn evenIn In the experience or a lifetime feel teel the Impulses Impulse of or tho th grand old ocean and may look with apathy on It Its finest moods but to the discriminatIng eye of ot a person toI I I ot of natural taste tute n and refinement the sea ses In Its every condition ot of orI calm or storm has hs elements or of I beauty peculiarly Its own How then must muot the mind of ot l oung oung- Tul- Tul Tul hate has been filled nith aith delight at the chanting changing splendors of et We- We Wemouth mouth We-mouth mouth for Bay Bay tor It is 1 I said to be the thes s second cond In tho the world for tor beauty that of Naples being scarcely su- su su superior v perlor hen Its waters were stirred b the approaching storms storm of the rough coat coast or la Ia sleeping In placid beauty under the misty light of a summer moon His home wa wee near the beach and In stormy tormy seasons the tho surf rolled nightly with witha a butIn roar that broke his hie slumbers but In times of or calm the tho quiet grays gray of tho the shores hores and nd the tho misty atmos atmos- atmospheric atmospheric effects upon the ocean gate e eto to him an equal equa As the result of these early In- In Im Impressions Mr shows his hl greatest In the treat treat- treatment treatment treatment ment of subjects Involving effects of waves or sky and he excels In and In delicate atmospheres atmosphere distances i GEORGE MARTIN George Martin Ottinger w ws was s born In iii Springfield Montgomery county February 8 1831 His early ancestors s were German and settled In America about 1740 Being Industrious and arid enterprising ing they soon acquired consider consider- considerable able blo property but during during- the war wr for Independence having having- espoused earnestly the tho cause of ot the colonies they ting Ot-ting-er lost nearly all of o It Mr Ot- Ot Into s father tather bo however ever camo In- In In to Inthe ot of a good goed farm In the management ot or which he wu was very successful In 1840 ho he was persuaded by an n uncle to embark In merchandise so and to that end mId Id old hI his farm tarm and remo ed to Bed Bed- Bedford ford Pennsylvania Penns For a few Years the venture promised ell ot eli hen suddenly certain speculations In which he had invested his hi prop prop- erty erly property properly tailed failed taU ed and left let him almost penniless Ottinger was waa then 13 sears ears old and cherished strongly the desire to become a painter As far Asfar back in his boyhood as can be ho he kept a n box boi ot of paints and spent a a great part ot of othis his leisure lelure In tn drawing and painting himIn ill lIl es did not encourage hint him In the way of ot his hIe Inclinations Inclination but permitted out i him to drift about Ith out Dolt Instruction or advice on the subject of or art His ills early education tion In other ether respects respect does not a ap- ap ap p pear appear to o have been neglected for tor besides beside the tho training received ed at the I district school of ot Bedford ho he At- At at attended tended for nearly nearl two ears eara the I NewYork Mechanics Mechanic Society School In New York City and subsequently schools In Philadelphia Ottinger when a s bo boy ran away I I I to sea aea because his hia family Insisted on the medical profession tor for him After Arter II In Europe Ash Africa North sail anti South America and nan no blinds of or the seas mak mak- mak makIng making ing ketches he nent stent ho he hoi etui lied home on the tho day of hl hie HI lit HIi people iho ho had en giten him up for dead ded making king no further objection to his hl hi study he heI to study fron from the tto best beat beatI I I master that the east afforded V bile lillo tilt II Lake was VaS still sUII a small I tillage Ottinger arrived by ox ox- ox team ox-team team 1 I he lie theatre walls oils were ere then up and Brigham Young set him nt at work upon the tage scenery For four years he painted lIe Howai I va stas tor for many coRny ears teacher of in iii the 40 f t Utah is i-is sorted nerved d as president o of both the Deseret Acad Academy m of ot Fine Arts and the Utah Art Institute Ottinger s 5 best beat work was use I as In land land- landscape and perhaps his greatest ork u ork Is de do pc paca and his his- historical his historical pictures referring to the tho oar 1536 1636 when hen a group of four men made one of or the first journeys across the continent This route lay through the mesas of or northern Texas through Arizona New alex Mex- MexIco Mei-Ico Mei leo Ico and California At the time Mr Ottinger OllInger was pursuing t r si i l studies In the eastern states state considerable ersy existed among the painters not I only In Amelca but In Europe The old canons of ot art v were acre ere lust just falling faIling Into disuse the academic rule Imported by Trumbull Alls Ails Allston Ailston ton Alls ton and oilier other at tIts of or not note noto In the present century were fasts tas wa to the precepts of ot the real real- realists real realists It and p pie e Rus- Rus Ruskin Ruskin kin Rus-kin kin s a Modern Painters became the book bythe text book for tor many renny and ant Was waa by bythe the Tho The Painter s Bible And with the re ret painter as a Moll eli II a as patron saw the tho and justness of or a change and an advance towards a school chool o 0 distinct American Determined not riot to be bo canted to extremes b by either party s a method Mr Ottinger chose a middle course knotting Ing that thero there were ere ere good rules taught aught t by all schools well worth that that by going to nature Inspiration any rule rulo or method hat ht old aided d the Interpretation como I from nat theory It might ss for tor the time correct Using his own words I I belle believe e that It if ever the American painters originate a distinct school of American art It will originate with lIh ot ith those thole painters nho ho are not Influenced by any par par- par particular foreign academic teaching and v who otho ho are thoroughly eclectic In technique and composition And I have bate e gone further than this I first commenced pointing painting I grew tired of or the re- re repeated re repeated Mary Jary Stu- Stu Stuarts Stuart Stu Stuarts art arts and Joan of or Arcs annually On exhibition I I wondered It there thero was wu any new nw field for the American painter to glean subject subject- subject matter matter especially In his own coun coun- coun- coun try country that had not bee to death In landscape Yes Yea a sup Of Ot history But little that was otas unpainted as tar back a as the discovery but hat W was there thero beyond the advent or of Columbus Ah here Is a vast tact t al- al almost al almost most moat unexplored vista tista Ita mysterious new and picturesque Old Ith 0 Ith all n her hor pre historic treasures a storehouse of ot material that need need- needed need need- needed needed ed only stud study time and patience to moke noke Interesting and of or value alu and ant In this direction my studIes ha hat e been boon chiefly directed for tor cr ears But Dut It Isn Is jin n uphill work stork the history o of ancient America I is not familiar to the public and the tho people are slow to recognize or ap- ap ap predate appreciate that of or which the they know nothing Still Stil I ho have hate 0 letters or of praise from artists antiquarians and r tans ians of or distinction that led leid me to hope that some day I may produce a picture worthy orth of ot being being- pro pro- pro pronounced flounced meritorious MRS W H REEDER RIEDER J Ji |