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Show SALT LAKE ARTIST PAINTS PORTRAITS 1 OF PROMINENT UTAHNS FOR EXPOSITION Left to right Joseph F. Smith, John Dem, Albert Salzbrenner and Governor William Spry. 1 a -.if; w i'WV:: ( ' i - - Pictures Displayed in Reception Re-ception Room of State Building at Fair. AMOXG the works of art sent to the Panama-Pacific exposition as representative of Utah were three portraits of representative Utah men Joseph P. Smith, president of the Mormon church; Governor William Wil-liam Spry and John Dem, member of the state capitol commission. The portraits por-traits have been placed -in the reception room of the Utah building at the exposition. ex-position. The portrait? were painted by one of Utah's adopted sous, Albert Salzbrenner, Salzbren-ner, tonnenv of New York. The pictures pic-tures were not done lor exhibition purposes, pur-poses, originally. But with the love of an artist :or his work, Mr. tSalzbreoner put hia whoie &oul and the skill of years ot experience into every stroke or the brush with such effect that tho paintings paint-ings were selected to represent the state iu the world's greatest exposition. Mr. fc'alzbrenuer studied under some of the masters of Europe; he painted in Europe, but the lure of tho new world brout'at him to New York in search of greater oppoi'tuntio. He plied his art in the big metropolis, but. lollowing the footsteps of restJe.-.s Americans, he moved toward the setting sun. Por several sev-eral years ho divided his time between New York and the Pacific coa&t, but one day he stopped in Salt Lsko. And that was the end of his wanderings. The portrait of President Smith was don last fall, arnon the first painted in Salt Lake by Mr. Salzbrenner. Soon afterward he painted the portrait of Mr. Dern, which was hung in the Dern home. The portrait of Governor Spry waH bepun since the first of the year and completed just in time for tho exposition. |