Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-01 | Page 21 | Mother of Five Children Gains High Place among Utah Artists

Mother of of Five Children Gains Place Ut Utah L rt High Among Mrs Mrs Miriam Bro Brooks ks Jen Jenkins in Paints Paint From prom Impulse Im Tm- pulse Field Is Water Colors Colors' i I A mother r and nd an a an artist Is Mrs l Iiri Miriam m Br Brooks Jenkins Jenkins who wh stands high among the Utah M women men ar ar j fists Mrs Mr Jenkins ii with her w W. W d G. G Jenkins 1 children chil chil- dren uren lla have just moved In into to charming charm ing little e house at O Ouray r y street t Caring for five chi children dren a al a l house us and J d' d dW W Whiskers the pet terrier the the of-the f the children ie leaves leave's ves Ve Veone one pr pre precious ious little time f for rp painting in ng and end th ih the c chief ter plaint of Mrs Mis Jenkins at pre present prent nt is that e each ch day has but twenty twenty-fd r hours i Yet despite this this handicap a a a handicap from a 3 purely artistic endeavor en- en deavor standpoint Mrs Jenkins will ass y re s1 he h has cre cre t d with her brushes brushes arid arid water colors colors' scores on on scores scores of ot delicate paintings some some large some some small all but rich each W with y h definite value value PAINTS FROM IMPULSE IMPULSE- PULSE r There is a str strong ng emotional m t onar qu quality l' l ity about th wat water r colors of of- Mrs Te Je Jenkins She explains it Ii by saying that she he paints from nip mp Iso lse aI alone ne Rules Hulas In art In-art art are made to fo be lie broken she believes arid and her creative ef efforts of d- forts would prove her right in her heron own on paintings at least east She has a splendid feeling for color and com corn position A saU salient nt feature of h her r water vater colors is their solidarity and brilliancy which is comparable to 0 that of toUs oils Mrs 1 was 1 in alt sal L Lake in April 1885 th the thu daughter er erot ot of pioneers of-pioneers Charles P P. p. p and MiNi MiNi- cent cerit A A. A Brooks She he re received e eved ved her ner early education I in the the city ity high school where she majored in sc sc- sc ence and art le receiving g her instruction tion in drawing drawing- from J. J T. T d dand and that in painting front from Mary Mari Teasdale Teasdale- perhaps the best known knop of Utah women painters Completing high school Mrs Jenkins was vas sent to Boston to study study- music music in in the New England conservatory conser conser- w My family and f friends nas all told me that I could never make inake an any money y with painting but that I could always make mako a living with piano Mrs Jenkins said DIVIDES TIME TIMEt It was while she was stu studying music th that t the urge to paint aint kept surging up in h her r rand and would w uld n t be deni denied d Discussing the situation with an artist friend Mrs 1 Jenkins finally hit upon the sch scheme m of ot practicing practicing I her piano in the the- mornings and evenings and dev devoting ting her af afternoons afternoons at- at to painting Finally I got homesick and discouraged discouraged discouraged dis dis- dis- dis I with my music and came home she said sald It wasn't until after my third baby was wa's born that I really began to 10 consider my paintIng painting painting paint paint- ing in a 3 serious light and began beg to do things with my art which satisfied satis satis- fied fled m me AH AU of ot which would seem cem to disprove the theory that a a. woman woman woman wo wo- wo- wo man cannot have a career carer and a a. family at the same time I used to paint in the evenings after I had put the three children to b bed d. d. d Other than her high school instruction in- in Mrs Jenkins has had no guidance in her artistic endeavors I used to haunt the art galleries when I lived in Boston an and later in New York where I went with Mr Jenkins shortly after our marriage she said r I believe it was was really there ther that I learned what little Ittle J a J do know about art rt and painting LATEST WORKS WORKS- The latest works of ot Mrs Jenkins are a series of ot scenes from Zion can canyon n which she made there last October In th these se particularly Is the solidarity of oils strikingly present These seven pictures she is sending sending- to New Newl NewYork York the first of the year ar for exhibition Six large paintings of ot flowers her favorite subject and landscapes are being sent to Boston for the same pur pur- pose Oils Yes I w want nt to paint in oils but oils and kids dont d mix inix she said with with witha a a l gh One ono h hasto has hasto sto s to have a 3 room which will lock to keep p things thing's from th their il busy little fingers alf but one of Mrs Jenkins Jenkins' paintings have bee been landscapes or still lifes she has a hankering to todo todo todo do portraits A An i impressionistic little sketch little h hot of ot het he daughter Mary Maryin in a backy backyard rd of f apple blossoms is the one portrait she h has s done don H However H never r Im I'm g going ing to to do ilo m more rE Mrs Jenkins e st stated ted My Iy and chief desire d ire Js to paint well paint well h not t. t just portraits but tout hut humans tans tans-