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Show Sectiom 3 HP A i EDUCATE ORGANIZE TEE PEOPLES PAPER COOPERATE VOL X; NO. WLJ SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SEPTEMBER 2, 1938 9 LABOR DAY GREETINGS MULCOCK CONSTRUCTION COMPANY LABOR AND ITHE ARTS Price: 5 Cents Per Copy Labor Day Greetings Waterworks Equipment General Contractors Only the most intractable reac tionary will deny that the manifest increase both in the production anc appreciation of works of art in the United States during the last few 1 West 2nd South years is largely the result of goy Salt Lake City, Utah ( ernment aid and encouragement as I ESTABLISHED 1907 represented by the WPA Federal Art Project. Nor can it be denied SUPPLIES I SERVICE ELECTRIC REFRIGERATION under the impetus of the ! that CONDITIONING AIR Works Progress Administration, a I 6 Phone Wasatch 6192 West First South number of new trends and direc SAL'p LAKE CITY, UTAH jj Labor Day Greetings tions in America have found fuller expression. Of these, one of the most prominent, and certainly one of the most Hi-He- at significant, has been the developLabor Day Greetings ment among our painters of a social point of view. This trend be22 West 2nd South Wasatch 676 comes at once apparent if we comof exhibitions recent the pare any of thq WPA Federal Art Project, or that of WPA painters shown at Felt Building the Museum of Modern Art, with exhibitions held elsewhere several Labor Day Greetings SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH years ago. The artists particularly the younger men are making BUSINESS MENS ASSURANCE COMPANY a distinct effort to relate their perof America ceptions and insights to the society in which they live. More and more Originators of the Now Famous ! they are coming to realize that the ALL-WAYartist is not a detached, isolated S POLICY mechanism but a part of society; Established 1872 Salt Lake City Phone Was. 21 and that the functions he performs It Pays For are determined to a large extent by that society. This realization Sickness, Accidents, Financial Difficulties, has noticeably influenced their A- -l American of Staff College Surgeons Competent Rating choice of subject matter and, in Old Age, Death Physicians and Surgeons the case of the more mature painters, their esthetic and their formal Accredited School of Nursing Modem Equipment Branch Office, 10th Floor, 1st Bk. Bldg. interpretation as well. The cause of this new orientaWalter M. Jones, Branch Manager tion are by now fairly obvious. Phone Was. 1102 SALT LAKE CITY the first three decades of During 3ExtendingC the present century the art market although dominated by the com- niiiiiminiiiiiiiiiiiiaiimiiiiiiiaiiiiiiitiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiniimiiiiiiiniimiiiminuimtiminimiiiiuiinimmiminiiimiiiimn LABOR DAY GREETINGS mercialism so prevalent everywhere else in the country, was rela Labor Day Greetings atively stable, and painters saw little reason to concern themselves with the economic and social as pects of life. To reinforce their Across from Viaduct attitude, they had behind them the 3rd West and North Temple illustrious precept of the romantic tradition with its counsel of indi vidualism, aristocratic aloofness, FIRST GRADE GASOLINE and even exile. What the latter-da- y exponents SAVE MONEY ON EACH GALLON of this tradition tended to overlook, however, was that a refusal to conSalt Lake City, Ogden, Provo and cern oneself with the problems of soin was Certified First Grade by Utah State Road Commission-Clearl- y definite a itself society Price, in Utah cial point of view. They did not marked on pumps realize that such an attitude was a product of certain social conditions, Pocatello, Idaho Falls and Twin Falls, in Idaho changed, the attitude would necessarily collapse. It took the eco Low Prices Merchandise nomic crisis of 1929 to make this Quality evident. At that time the demand BEST WISHES TO LABOR ON ITS DAY, SEPTEMBER 5 Since 1868 for works of art came to an abrupt end. Wealthy patrons, faced with luiiiiiiiiiiiiDiiiiiiiiiiiiDiiiiiiiiiiiiDiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiDiiiiiiiiiiiiDiiiiiiiiiiiiDiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiin a decline and possible loss of their fortunes, confined their purchases almost entirely to time - tested paintings by the old masters. The Is still a wonderful buy. Come and profit few contemporary artists 'who could still find a market were no longer able to command anything Convenient Terms Can Be Arranged here. like the prices they had formerly ! asked. And for the majority of that meet your most Important requirements In home men, for the struggling young decoration, are found In the painters, no market at all remained. Art always regarded as a luxwas the first ury in America 7 and 9 South Main Street Wasatch 2445 thing to be dispensed with, and the artist, consequently, was among the first to feel the effects of the (Continued on next page) 255 Wasatch 3403 East 3rd South Company Louis A. -- noser Company 149-15- r 254-25- i Coal Co. SNYDER MINES, Inc. r i ST. MARKS HOSPITAL Natl i. COMMERCIAL BULK STATION Wholesale Grocery GOOD FURNITURE CO L O Pi S Standard Furniture Co. Labor Day Greetings Welcome, Labor lovely new shades and tints HOLLAND We recognize and appre- ciate the fine patronage we have always received from organized labor. Furniture Co. South State Main Store on State 364 See our new lines of Furniture purchased from Chicago and Coast Markets Prices Lower Than Ever Before See Holland First and Save S In EVERY TYPE of BENNETTS PAINT see how Bonnet!' exclusive colors III in your homo, choose some of the largo, FREE individual chips. 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