Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-03-01 | Page 5 | Middle West Artists Given Little Praise

MIDDlE WEST i ARTISTS ARTIST GIVEN liTTlE PRAISE Must Be Granted Broader Recognition or Heritage From Pioneers' Pioneers Pen an and l Brush Is Lost CHICAGO Mar 1 I By A. A P. P The P. The midland must give Its artists greater recognition else the heritage from the pioneers pioneer's pen pencil and bru brush h showing show show- ing that the Middle lIddle West has haa all the tho material necessary for tor the novel th tb drama or the character painting willbe will willbe willbe be lost declare art folk and prominently prominently Interested friends here Midland landscape it its people and atmosphere have all that Is required for tor great beauty in expression they ea say but because there Is a backward backward backward back back- ward response to his work worK woric me toe East EastIs Is annexing the Western artist Authors painters architects musicians musicians musi musi- clans and sculptors from the Middle West said to be unappreciated their native fields are pointed out by these thee people as reaching f fame ml and Imd success in 10 inthe inthe the E East itt in an environment where there Is more encourage encouragement ent and recognition red rec In their products I We do not believe this situation to be one of higher literary or art intelligence Intel Intel- among Eastern people but rather to an uncultivated sense in the people of ot our section said sald an authorIty authority author author- ity In art circles here We Ve know that app appreciate clato natural beauty v our open expanses are too full of It not to be absorbed but it Jt appears that when it finds expression In book painting or etching the significance is IsI not entirely f tt felt The e majority of the successful authora authors au au- au- au thors thora In New ew York and New England England England En En- gland came from the midland as aswell well as a large number of the prize winners at the exhibitions of ot painters and sculptors held in that section Perhaps Per Per- haps the East Is more inclined to the freshness and wholesomeness of MiddIe Middle Mid Mid- dle dIe Western products which we have about us each day Realizing a this tendency e steps s have be been taken to give nt the midland a artist better facilities and to encourage a more profitable audience The Allied Arts association has been torme formet by br persons interested In and directing art for It own sake A modification In the Immigration Eastward Is seen and the association plans to aid and encourage all artists and people of the midland In hopes of ot putting midland life lite into int midland art We Ve will not concern ourselves i with ith foreign artists but we will give our energy and efforts for the bene benefit it of or our own said John M. M Stahl the tha president We Ve Ye will especially help the younger artists who are working honestly and hard to make a tion and of ot the older who blazed the 1 way by showing we rh have a all the material ma ma- h necessary for the novel o the drama etcher or character painter