Show UTAH ARTISTS IN PARIS THE friends of james T harwood a young utah artist who has gone to europe to complete his studies will be pleased to learn leam of his doings in paris the artists 9 paradise where he has achieved notable success the following letter to a brother artist in this city dated july appears in the salt lake journal of f commerce Com Wroe of the dinst 1 I have bave not left paris and the schools yet but I 1 start next week for two or three months outdoor out door study I 1 should have been gone I 1 long ago if I 1 had bad not net started in for tag the competition of the national ecole boole des beaux arts on the of june the examination started with between three and four hundred competitors myself included it lasted until the of july and on the the results wen were posted up and I 1 am very pleased to tell yon that I 1 was one of the seventy five who were admitted as full members of the school I 1 am now furnished by the french government with free schooling for two years with professors in painting anatomy history and other branches who are equal to any in europe it is a very great honor to be a member of the beaux arto ai for they have privileges which others do not and many who have been here for years have not dot been able to pass I 1 worked with a young man who had made quite a reputation at home in america before he came and he has been here for three years but he failed this time and has tried two or three times before three of the americans have higher class numbers than I 1 but I 1 have the highest of any who have not taken the examination before number I 1 to is high and is as low as can be taken and ana stay IB my number is 29 the examination is very hard all are packed in one room mom and have to hold their work werk with ath the knees and one hand and draw with the other the top of the sketch resting on an upright iron rod after drawing the examination includes history architecture anatomy perspective and modeling the questions quest fons in history are given when all are placed guards being stationed to prevent cheating and the questions are taken from all the way between 2700 B C and 1889 A D so you cant very well look the matters over the morning be fore then in architecture when all are assigned to their places in boxes or stalls the subject is given this one was christ at the foot of a doric column in a chapel we had from eight a in till two p pm in to finish lunch which of course we had to pay tor for being served to us like horses anatomy was given the same way but we only had two hours and a half on that we had to give the external fare of the lower leg and foot to draw the bones and mark the attachments tach ments in perspective we had to draw a vase and block and give the true perspective from where we were placed modelling Mo delling was to copy a bas relief of a head for this we were given nine hours and were again fed in our stalls like horses modelling Mo delling finished it it is a very exciting affair one feels like an ancient galley slave with his guards over him every frenchman who passes has two years of his army service remitted so that makes them very keen and as the school is limited every american that gets in keeps a frenchman out I 1 am very glad it is all over and 1 I have done so well I 1 have been studying up for it all my odd time evenings and mornings for the last six months but except for the last four weeks I 1 did not lose any of my day work over it the boys paid me the compliment to predict that I 1 would pass since I 1 last wrote I 1 have done quite a lot of painting at the julian my prof benjamin constant told me one day that I 1 had drawn long enough and to go to painting that pleased me very much as I 1 wanted to start but felt a little timid about it the next week we had a very interesting boy as model and I 1 went in for color with all my might it brought very encouraging criticisms and at the end of the week a fellow took a notion to it and bought my first painting As he was critics ing on something new to me I 1 told him I 1 was just beginning keep on said he you will come out all rights right that gave me encouragement I 1 have spent a lot of time at the exposition and found it the most tiring pleasure I 1 know 0 of fa 1 there is so much to see many of the students made a business of it and did it right up at one swoop going day after day until they had seen it all there never has been and probably never will be such a chance to see as great a collection of pictures there are all the best pictures that have been painted in the last twenty or thirty years corots by the stack and every other painter of note it is a fine chance to compare one painter with another as well as the different schools but that the french looms up above everything else spain comes next then america makes a very good show but falls away behind the the first two and so does dees england you can count the english painters on one france has hundreds efthem of them benjamin constant in one of his articles to the press gave american art a big puff he said mid they were taki taking n the roe lead in landscape and that urge george innes was the greatest living landscape gain painter er he bought quite a number of chis his pictures and advised others to do the same I 1 visited the ex exposition the other day with a genite gentleman from salt lakerr lake mr lavagnino and his brother and family who live here we ascended the eiffel tower and took lunch up there one can realize the size of paris from there for that is all you can see as far as the eye can reach the last time I 1 saw dallin he be wished to be remembered to his friends in salt lake his model of lafayette is a very good thing and he is coming along nicely |