Show Art Matters At tho Salt Lake Easel on Second South street there are now on exhibition ex-hibition two really fine works of art The larger one representing Night is an oil painting in black and white illustrating a basrelief and it requires very little stretch of fancy to believe that the work is really carved Itis a beautiful con caption and is most artistically treated not a shadow among the almost infinite number of shades in grey being misplaced or injudiciously injudi-ciously utilized There is a feeling of beauty about it which is refining and pleasant to the highest degree i It is very seldom that anything so exquisite is produced by our local artists Mr Dan Veg Eland the artist is receiving many flattering encomiums from the cultivated critics crit-ics whose attention has been attracted at-tracted thereto The smaller picture the wOrk of Mr Lorus Pratt and it is beyond question tide best piece in the line ever shown by that gentleman Asa As-a tpeciaien of miniature figure painting it ranks high among local productions It will bear the closest examination and it is just the kind af work to show to those who are constantly on the look outfor close detail of treatment Such work as this illustrates Mr Pratts patient and honest attention to the minu tire of his subject and speaks well for his future great success in portraiture por-traiture the line he has adopted Bytheby we are glad to learn that our yqung townsman Mr J W Clawson familiarly known as Will is progressing finely at his art college in the east We were shown yesterday a fine drawing from the plaster cast of Mercury executed by the gentleman some time since which was accepted and he gained thereby admission to the life clasawhere he is now studying study-ing Since then he has sent some fine specimens of drawing from the human form representing each from ten to fifteen hours study and they show a vast Improvement in his technique That he has the touch and taste of an artist is beyond question and we will be mush mistaken mis-taken if Will does not make a mark sufficiently high to be seen far above the Utah view |