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Show ARTIST GETS RECOGNITION Prof. B. F. Larson, a me ruber of the teaching: staff of the art department de-partment of Brigham Young: university, uni-versity, who has been studying; art in Europe for the past lti months received splend-id recognition by the Kiench magazine. "Revue du Viai to express himself "Our correspondent from America, Amer-ica, having acquired information on the subject, then sent' biographical details to the Review which published pub-lished them with a portrait of the artist in 192S." Published in Paris, France. Prof. Larson, who has been in Paris for a number of months, will sail for home on August 13 and expects ex-pects to be in Provo by September 1. He will be ready to take up his work at Brigham Young: university when school opens on September 10. 1930. et du Beau' in a recent issue. The magazine published pictures of three of Prof. Larson's paintings and along with them a review of his work. A translation of the pi inted matter follows: I "After the story rendered so elegantly el-egantly by Comte Chabrier which appeared here June 28, 1928, on the subject of B. F. Larson and his Works exposed at New York, it not without pleasure that I found the Artist at the Societe des Artistes Ar-tistes Francais and not without curiosity that I studied his work, 'La Barbacane a Cordes.' "The enlarged characteristics expressed ex-pressed by my colleague are here in some way humanized, but the study is nevertheless carefully worked out. Looking down from the top of the canvas we cannot overlook neither the richness of the color, nor the brightness of . the light, nor the suiety of the lines, nor the sincerity of the vision. "With a great flexibility of execution ex-ecution and a great consciousness ri?n th" talfnl of Larson adapt themselves to the subject. 'Our readers surely remember I the four pictures of June 28, 1928, 1 "T h e Gateway," "Timpanogos Snows," "The Mother Tree," and "Pushing Upward." These works which are pure mountain studies are treated largely without superfluous super-fluous details and tend to create above all the right atmosphere in the varied light and to give to the sight that which one would call in a few words, its soul. "Temperamentally, the artist is powerful and determined and is called to art by an Inevitable desire ir ' z. |