Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-10-03 | Page 50 | Local Artist Completes President Smith's Picture

LOCAL ARTIST COMPLETES i PRESIDENT SMITH'S PICTURE Joseph F. Smith. Second Portrait Said to Be Better Than First; Now in San Francisco. UNUSUALLY interesting and worthy of careful study from both a personal and artistic point of view is the latest portrait of President Joseph F. Smith of the Mormon Mor-mon church, now on exhibition in the main window of the Standard Furniture Furni-ture company, 7-9 South Main street. The painting is the work of Albert Salzbrenner, a distinguished German artist, who has for the past two years maintained studios both in Salt Lake and New York. Last year Mr. Salzbrenner completed a portrait of President Smith, which attracted wide attention and is now on exhibition at San FTancisco. This latest lat-est portrait is said by art critics to be the superior of the other. It is a three-quarter figure, full life size, and shows the subject standing in an attitude atti-tude of careful attention. Both poise and expression are typical of intense vitality and much reserve power, combined com-bined with kindness and high ideals. Mr. Salzbrenner said yesterday that President Smith had posed for this picture, pic-ture, but recently completed, at intervals inter-vals during the summer months, the sittings sit-tings extending over periods of from an tour to two hours each. He added that it was by engaging President Smith in animated conversation upon topics concerning which their views were widely variant that he was able to get in his subject the expression that revealed the soul of the man. During the last year and a half, since actively engaging "in portrait painting In Salt Lake, Mr. Salzbrenner has had for subjects some of the most prominent promi-nent personages in the Btate, among them Senator Thomas Kearns, whose portrait is just finished; David Keith and Mrs. John Dern. The artist began be-gan his studies in Dresden many years ago nndeT Leon Pohle, later working with Ludwig von Hoffman and the famous fa-mous sculptor. Schilling. His work was exhibited at the Paris salon in 18SH; in 18C9 he received a commission to come to New York, and since I860 he has maintained a studio in that city.