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Show Noted Animal Artist Here j To Paint Famous Stallion Making Springville her home for tne next several weeks, Mrs. Billie Dolilman Cliestnut, internationally famous artist, art-ist, painter of animal life, is getling acquainted with the city, its people and its art. Although she has traveled from Europe and through forty-six of the forty-eight states, she was favorably impressed with the magnitude mag-nitude of the Springville art project, proj-ect, and especially with the art exhibit conceived by a city the size of Springville. Known as one of the best animal painters in the country, coun-try, she came to Springville especially to paint the Joseph V. Grant fine five-gaited stallion, stal-lion, "Gay Bandits Chief." The painting, on which she has already al-ready begun work, is to be in water colors, and she spends hours sketching and painting as A. G. Brown, trainer, poses the fine thoroughbred. Mrs. Chestnut is said to have her own water color methods and technique, and although entirely different from any other artist, results re-sults in a most amazing rich pastel pas-tel effect outstanding in its beauty and realism of expression. Coming to Springville too late to be represented in the annual national Art Show this year, she will be invited to exhibit in the August Show and the Art Show in 1949. Among her most famous painting paint-ing are pictures of General Pershing's Persh-ing's horses, "Kildron" and "Jeff". She has painted horses, dogs and other animals in practically every state. Included in her work in Utah to date is a painting of J. H. Strong's horse, "Just Imagine," on which their daughter, Jane is mounted in a striking pose. Mrs. Chestnut's reputation as a painter has long been established and her work has been featured in $ : numerous exhibits throughout the United States. Asked if she had studied the painting of animals particularly she replied, "No, not a single lesson". But a fervent desire coupled with talent, a love of animals, hard work and the will to do, has evidently been a most effective teacher. Although Mrs. Chestnut is a native European, she is typically western and unique is the fact that she scorns convention and always appears in western attire. Her early life in this country was spent on a ranch, which provided an appropriate ap-propriate atmosphere for her fine animal portraits. By some technique, tech-nique, she seems to put the breath of life into her pictures which are works of detail down to the most minute. A brief conversation with the artist revealed a character of interest, in-terest, a life enriched with varied and valuable experiences. Mrs. Chestnut is the daughter of Admiral Ad-miral Von Deinhard of the old Imperial German Navy, who was an intimate friend of Kaiser Wil-helm. Wil-helm. And . Kaiser Wilhelm was the then Fraulein Billie Von Dein-hard's Dein-hard's godfather. Born in a big castle near Goblenz, sho has come a long way however, since leaving that country at the outbreak of World War I. One might say, she abandoned a luxurious but restraining life in her native land to find in a life of freedomand unhampered expression, ex-pression, the true magnitude of her talents. She travels about the country in her own trailer "home" and makes a comfortable living with her paintings and illustrations. Most of her work is done on assignment. And incidentally, Mrs. Chestnut has had a number of magazine articles published . notably not-ably concerning Indians with whom she came in contact while living in Arizona. The prominence which Mrs. Chestnut has attained in the world of art, is verified in a large calf-skin bound scrap-book, scrap-book, which contains scores of news clippings of her visits in various cities as well as interesting in-teresting feature stories, let-1 ters of commendation from admirers of her art work and many, many photographic reproductions re-productions of her paintings of famous dogs, horses and other animals, owned by noted personages the country over. Townspeople may look forward to seeing her painting of a fine thoroughbred horse which with others of its kind, has brought fame to Springville. And in the meantime extend to her a welcome to Springville and a pleasurable sojourn in the city. |