Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-02-24 | Page 10 | Living Expressions Religious All

4 1 How the Beautiful 2 f 7 QT 1 S American Wife nf of VA V r V Vv v John Lavery f the y t ti i 4 2 Famous English J Ap J Artist Has Helped i 1 p n the e War Hair Y Cause by 1 Posing in Living r b T K y rf s f from om the S t 4 r rL J V i iI I t Master Painters 4 Musicians Mrs Laj ely centre Posing i in n Car p accio s Angel An b cl t t f r j. j I. I 1 l W v v IF y tY t n tf n M I ff Y J r T r r Ir I Y Ja f a r rw t r a 6 1 y MW c J r Y y J 4 e 44 4 r dr f rR t ri C 4 1 1 EeS V A m. m 1 r J Jr 4 pi T rg r Gr ruC Z y tT f Af ft k S s tt V iw- iw iM P aff ft a y Mrs Lavery in Popular Painting of the I Consoling Virgin I By Josephine i VEN In the terrible times limes of war beauty has EVEN E EVEN its power At n a moment when the sternest of ot conditions confront the thc world the magic fair faces is playing a part and a useful part A striking example of this Is furnished by the c idealism of Mrs John Layer Lavery Mrs r Laver Lavery was a Chicago girl recognized from her here e earliest days das as a beauty of uncommon charm Shu Shuh h had d animation and she had facility in all tho the graces of or lif life She loved pictures and music an and l romantic things Inevitably she sue was v a popular figure wherever here she Ehe he went It was the most natural thing in the world that a painter a man steeped in lu romantic traditions trad trad- devoted to the creation of lovel lovely Images should boul fall raU in love with her John Lav Lavery r though less famous at the time he courted the young beauty U than an he has become since that day was wa ranked among Hmong the ablest and most promising of ot British artists And so sours Mrs John LaVery found her way war Into the haunts of English and l French rench art She liked Paris but she loi loved lo ed London She saw sate on that honeymoon trip all the wonders of ot Spain and Italy Hah and Switzerland And she camo came back beck to England with a 3 deep feeling of affection fo for its She She soon became conspicuous In the art circles of f London LaYer Lavery painted her into some of hb his most effective creations Then Theon came the war var to stagger art as it stag stat tiered ered all aU of life A kind of dismay w seized on theart tho the art life of or ever every nation when the tho thear war ar clouds cast their dreadful shadow over the world People asked as they are ate still asking What will war do to art What shall art create What will no now reach the human breast Mrs Lavery like so many thousands of other women omen in the warrin warring countries took up various forts df t There was plenty of ot It to do Conditions In America today will suggest st the con unfolded in England at a much earlier day dare Work ark was to be done cone not only tor for the military sido lido of or the In a thousand and one ways for tor life at home Money Mone- yes Money yes there was money to be raised and to be raised again War Var bazaars bazaar and spectacles t were organized to raise funds for all manner of practical ends Mrs Lavery soon became prominent prominent prom nent vent In these movements Her resourcefulness was well wel seconded b by her husband Her recent orga organ Ration of a living picture spectacle revealing great great j religious works of ot art was an Immense success a no not only from rom an artistic br bul t from a raising money-raising s l of view io 4 1 In these pictures Mrs Mm La Lavery vcr herself tool look a 1 v I. I dJ i Mrs Mra John La Layer Lavery 1 fw P Posing in J 1 W- W WW W M Crivelli's I M Gorgeously 1 t I Robed Figuro Figaro j I of the J ti Madonna JY t E t rr C 3 1 I y 1 1 I 1 V r r v i 1 A t. t f 1 m M f S K p- p r i w i 1 a r N at v im t tJ I J w l rr rr A 1 k 1 7 al' al Y t r u a J 1 Y I w. w tl LIaf rf 3 yr Yr Y 1 1 r g al yA r 4 1 v r r rh h r S S' S f fN 1 N k Yr JY n nI yr I 4 l Y j t t S 4 t t t f t r. r rr b f wD I J Mrs Lavery in The Vision of Daniel Damel by Rembrandt r t e LrA 1 i y prominent part Perhaps the tho most notable e of all th thi pictures S created with great care and labor in detail are shown on this page Mr 11 and Mrs Lavery Lav Lay ery Pry were assisted In procuring the elements clements necessary necessary 5 the and accessories by some essary to costuming of ot the most prominent connoisseurs and in England For example tho robe worn in Crivelli's Crl- Crl vellis velli's Madonna a sorge gorgeously embroidered robe is n C Florentine cr creation co costing thousands of dol dol- lars It was lent by a ducal collector who was glad to know that thal it was to perform a service In augmenting n a war work vork fund Whether ns as the angel in Rembrandt's Vision of Daniel or in a Madonna image such as Dou Bou- Introduces In n his Consoling Virgin Mrs laver Laverys Lavery's s face expresses with rare effectiveness effective ness those Ideals deals which art has cherished for so many centuries One ma may readily understand how hog her husband has loved to translate her Into theart tho the art of the canvas The audiences that saw these living realizations realizations realizations of historic art artlett left no doubt of their approval There were insistent calls caUs for Cor repetition of the ibo heroine heroIn c 0 performances and Mrs ry Lavt-ry was the each occasion carriEd C cal No o o such uch adventure In art could be without artistic talent of a n high hiSh order orde It cos coset aJ d the pIda t. et John Lavery who posed and arranged as Charles Charles Dana liana Gibson Edwin Dla s sas U other prominent draughtsmen and painters circa under similar done one in the United States original works worl s of a t the c stances lance a. a To o follow ilow arrangEd d y Ji d r have to be cries erics an and accessories 1 to ment has the utmost the arrange arrangement with the operation co-operation of the models p n j arts v lice In sal is necessary to the rapid t ment incidental to the tho succession of or P foro fora an nn audience Frames Frame are used to lO elue w- w is an ea lighting framing of the original and md t a elements element eI of ot these ly lj important factor All which are arc disposed behind curtains quickly Cro created re-created drawn aside to reveal re the re cj n a t Each r is shown for a period S o a minute during wring which the absolute one ne tJ a 1 pain effects of ot the tho th figures accentuates accentuate tho the image imager