Show Encourage the Artists How Painters and Sculptors Aid in Advancing the Greatness and Value of Our State and Us History upon entering a spacious we find on its walls only or sloppy oil we conclude the owner lacks discernment and the true sense of We also suspect that he is without Somewhat the same view may he taken of a state or community that is too long without a Museum of If we desire to increase the appreciation and love of art in the if we desire to encourage the artists of Utah in devotion to their if we determine to attract the attention of strangers to the talent which we have here and to the beauty of our environments-then there is no better way open to us for this purpose than the direct encouragement of art for art's The works of the artist are not for today but for the instruction and exaltation of future generations as Those who come after us will most appreciate the acts by which we preserve for them the art o our It is foolish to spend too much of our means in piles of brick stone which soon become unsuitable and crum ble art products are But ho may this be Individuals may purchase pictures and present them to the They should have their placed upon the names as donors frames of the pictures they Families and firms may present works of art in pictures or other the same Where arc it may require considerable space upon the but all the names can be placed In this every person who has in any way contributed to public pleasure and refinement may be known to those who enjoy the results of his good taste and generous A collection of- pictures made in one city could be borrowed by other cities willing to pay for their shipment and so that people in all parts of state might be The conditions here are probably more favorable for- such- exhibitions than in other In April and October thousands of people from all parts of the state Salt Lake A Museum of Art here would proba-bly effect more for the cultivation the temperament- and the spirit of art than a simlar could accomplish in any other each person according to his means and act as a of one in an endeavor to inT terest his Salt Lake soon have a museum of It is not at all impossible that within ten years might in proportion to our the finest museum of art of any city in the If we do other States soon follower just as they are doing in the matter of a State Art Utah was the first to lead out in this The writer was the first secretary of The cultivation that of a taste for art in- any community is a short cut to edu and true progress a constant stimulus toward better Sculpture Is As to some men will Why encourage so useless an art as We Because of the educational value and the hold upon the intellect and heart exerted by any piece of such Notice the signal of peace by Dallin in the City and County Think of the time it took to realize such a Consider the delight it has given to ten thousand local and of the favorable impression- which it has made upon ten thousand Consider how much history and patriotism are taught by the single statue that means something and that is well Sculpture almost always deals with man and his and in no other way can the history of any country be so effectively or beautifully presented to the youth and the stranger as by these invaluable works in the human with the passions and the human soul reflected in its is so strongly portrayed by fine sculpture that we can perceive almost a glance the truth of the scriptural that is a spirit in man and the inspiration of the Almighty given him The statue has a more and character than do the productions of any other It exhibits the chaste-repose of the calm strength of the pure and is the one fit subject for portraying that which is invaluable in the history of Painting Is Admired By Painting needs no defense or It has already won a position It always has been one of the most widely cultivated and influential of the fine As with truth is I 2 one of its most important Correctness is the first element of excellence in That which is falsely done is poorly though from our ignorance we may fail to discern the care ful and is required for i good If it is to possess a painting must be the re- suit of experience and i perseverance Painting is not I as to roan S but deals with the and with the lower forms of It has more more and imparts a more perfect pleasure than sculpture though it has less to and fewer passions to the Nature itself never travels so high nor descends so low as does and is more nearly ripe in her more 3 at her than man ever a picture dealing with the forms of nature as well as with human has a t greater hold upon the attention jl and the imagination of the masses than has These of the real fact and ij nature of both these fine arts are urged simply because a true esti- mate of the greatness and the im- of their history will alone cause them to be 5 h aged by the appreciation of an enlightened think that nothing better could be done 1 i for the real advancement of our M state than for the legislature to m give some substantial aid in the way of purchasing the finer pro- jg of our talented j J. 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