Show AT THE ART EXHIBIT 1 SOME REFLECTIONS INSPIRED BY THIS FINE DISPLAY J C Tticlioll Secretary of the National Na-tional Academy of Design at New York Was a Visitor Yesterday and Found Much to Admire Painting pictures is a little like get ting your life insuredyou have to die to reap the full financial benefit of it Tom Reed says a statesman is a successful suc-cessful politician who is dead and tis often true that an artistic genius is a man who was not recognized as a genius until after his death Death causes public attention to be focused on a mans life and work and if his work is good then it is in great demand de-mand for it is known that the supply is cut off Hi Millets pictures command thrice the figure that they did before his death though at the time of that event prices paid for some of his canvases were enormous The death of H H Hoag has directed direct-ed attention to the works of that gifted Utah artist and his last picture in the exhibition of the Society of Utah Artists Ar-tists continues to attract much attention atten-tion In fact interest in all the pictures pic-tures seems on the increase Tuesdays visitors were double those of Monday in number and yesterday the visitors were in excess of those of the previous pre-vious day though the murky weather I made the light dim and doubtless kept many visitors away during the daytime day-time X Flowers are always favorite subjects for the painters brush and a large number of canvases are devoted to this class of work Perhaps the most ambitious piece in this line is the large picture Basket of Chrysanthemums by Mrs H R Harwood The flowers seem to have been flung carelessly into the basket and yet the various colors white pink and yellow are so placed as to harmonize har-monize beautifully and each to set off the other The rough wicker work of the basket also acts as a fine foil Another An-other fine bit of floral painting is the vase of roses by J T Harwood The stiffness so often seen about painted boquets is absent from this while the drawing and shading are highly commended com-mended by competent critics Mrs Harwood also has a canvas showing Cinnerarias in a Window in which the softened light falling through the window panes on the brilliant bril-liant flowers is a clever bit of work A bunch of pansies by this same artist is also a pretty bit Miss Mary Teasdel also has a picture entitled Cinnerarias which attracts much attention because of the artistic artis-tic grouping and harmonizing of the colors and the delicacy of shading Cosmos by Mrs Alice Horn is another an-other delicate bit that is highly commended com-mended Mrs Edna Sloan has two studies in violets and a picture entitled enti-tled Roses among the water colors which attract much attention x a On Jordans Banks by H L A Culmer continues to be admired Most of the scenes about the Jordan have the reputation of being rather desolate and barren places but the artist has selected a place where the exception is the rule and the glimpse of water sky wood meadows and grove make the scene an appropriate one for representation rep-resentation by this artist skilled in portraying por-traying outdoor scenes Two figures boys fishing give life and interest to the picture a t One small picture is entitled Lemonade Lemon-ade and is by the brush of E M Pratt This young student seemingly refrained from making any very ambitious am-bitious attempt but did what was attempted very well It represents a cut lemOn a glass partially filled with liquid with a spoon in the same Artists Ar-tists recognize that such a combination combina-tion offers difficulties of reproduction perspective and shading that are hard to portray and they also recognize that the difficulties have been well met by this modest young artist i Mr Will Clawson has had photographs photo-graphs of a number of his paintings made to meet a constant demand from parties who wish some souvenir of his work but who cannot purchase the paintings It is probable that others of the artists will do likewise ok There was a distinguished visitor at the exhibition yesterday in the person of Mr J C Nicoll secretary of the National Academy of Design at New York He spent some time in the evening even-ing finding much to admire and praise and lef highly pleased with the display and regretting that he could not remain re-main longer |