Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-02-16 | Page 22 | Cornwell in Same Studio Sargent Used

C Cornwell in Same Studio Sargent Used I 11 Murals rals for Los Angeles Public Library Near Completion j By Uy JOSEPH GORDON LONDON Feb 15 UP UP UP-Hu Hugo o mural decorations which will adorn till tho Los Angeles public library are rc completion in fn a a. Chelsea t which curiously enough noush is 15 isone on one of or the tIu richest in tho ho painting tradition of ot America gf 11 it Is in fn tho same Bama studio which John ohn Singer Sargent anti and l Edwin Austin Abbey used wed In executing their immortal decor decorations for th the thc Boston Doston public library y that thal Dean Cornwell celebrated ccle American artist is finishing his lih series of panels which rightly might bo ho called The Tue Pageant of oC Old Call Cali fornia ornia Corn Cornwell already has spent s two years e ears rs on his colossal canvasses canvass omo ome of oC which arc aro thirty feet feel in and in length lie sun stilt ba has a a. years year's work work- to do on them For years regarded ono cC cf the groat grat 1 at of or America Corn- Corn wen in his present labor of oC love Jo displayed cd another mother side to his genius I in creating tho the desh designs ns for forthe forthe forthe the decorations In this commis commis- lIon sion Cornwell is the historian as i welt ll as the painter for tho the panels will display an erudite history o of or old southern California its cId early beginnings and gradual develop dc ment The panels show tho the settlement of southern California in tho days daR when Old Mexico stilt still dominated the land laud They show how the theD D taught the early carh settlers who ho because of at tho tim ideal climate nl abundance of or wild food never kii knew w what toll toil meant how to weave weave and spin and manufacture all sorts of or things from rom cloth to potte pottery Even the scaffolding scaffolding- used h by Cornwell arc the samo same which Sargent Sar- Sar gent prent ent and Abbe Abbey worked rk d on and there are n many nany in fn tho the studio which those great American American Ameri Amen can masters once owned and used As to tho reason why wIn those great leat American painters preferred to work in London rather than in America an explanation might be found in the remark once made malIc by Victor VIlor Hugo concerning the tho writing writ rit- rit ing of or history at which he ho was quito a hand himself Ho Ito said aid it could be ho done more accurately and Jn more re dispassionately when written from irom rom a great distance ance both as to time timo and space Cornwell maintains he can see sec California for his present pres pres- era ent l purposes of oC hl history tor far better from a distance o of several sc thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand miteR miles lIe He feels he can get geta ct a more accurate perspective o o of it being here than he be could If JC he too loo close to his c commission