Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-12-03 | Page 20 | Famous Artists to Decorate Pacific Motor Exposition

FAMOUS ARTISTS TO DECORATE PACIFIC 1 MOTOR EXPOSITION Leo Sculptor Is Signed Together With WithA A A. A Borghesi Big Mural J fainter Success Is Sure V J i Bl H The ne TS ns N FRANCISCO Dec 2 S The success of the Pacific I 1 Automobile show from a dec- dec oral ive i've standpoint was assured W when Manager G. G A A. 1 teen retained Leo wor w it d famous sculptor and A. A sJ Bi sly mural decorator of International r tion to take charge of the deco deco- work With the acquisition of these two famous artists San Francisco and the Pacific coast are assured of an auto auto- 1 inQ show which will excel anything e effi ewe held Even the famous Paris S nn exhibitions and the Olympia of of London will not compare with tile tJi display aS will be the wo of preparing the sculpture which ps alt al extensive part of the decorative decora decora- decorative tive scheme He is a young youn Latin Latin- American well known in the East several sev seve e eral several l years ago who leaped into worldwide world world- I wide prominence through his figure of the Christ on the cathedral of St. St John the Divine in New York City Well Known also created the memorial to Mr and Mrs Isadore Strauss and that Is one of his best known works He Is familiar to every everyone one who visited the tho exposition and one of his achievements achieve achieve- meets ments there the figure of Aspiration on the portal of the palace of oC fine art is s preserved for future genera genera- dog If work at the exposition In In- 01 rI d the beautiful Guardian Spirits ott ori he he columns of the arches of the Eai East and West in the court of the uni uni- v verse J Here also he lie created the maio ma rna io j part art of the two groups nations of tb ast and nations of the West In Ina Inthe a I tJ the nations of the East his work was I P I the he two equestrians the camel riders and the mounts of the equestrians In the Western group he created the four equestrians and the mounts and the squaw The entire groups were arranged by A A. A Sterling Calder Cald Cald- er and Frederic H. H Ro Roth Roh h In tion Figures Admired In the court of abu abundance tunce nce the happy spirited water sprites were the work of and were among the most admired figures of the court which contained so much beautiful sculpture But perhaps his best work was the figure figure figure fig fig- ure of Aspiration on the portal of the palace of f fine arts In it depicts depicts depicts de de- de- de the figure approaching Art kneeling to tend the fires of 1 I tion It Is an idealized representation tation of the hopes and dreams of the artist Symbolic of the automobile industry has chosen the figure of Mercury Mercury Mercury Mer Mer- cury as the central theme of the sculpture sculpture sculpture ture at the automobile show and will prepare a statue in which an entirely new conception of ot the messenger willbe will willbe willbe be represented This figure will be repeated at several points in carrying out the decorative scheme To Prepare Murals To Borghesi will fall the task of preparing the big murals the frieze and the decorative covering for the walls beneath the b balcony He also will prepare the Immense canopy which will cover cover the big hall hail and Inthis in inthis inthis this his Imagination will have full scope In presenting the dawn of the great Industry which In twenty years has developed out of nothing to be the second largest In the world only exceeded exceeded exceeded ex ex- ex- ex by the steel Industry of which it is an Immense part partIn In the big murals several of which will be 10 0 by 80 feet Borghesi will present typical California scenes The frieze will wOl be a representative California Califor nia work while the decorative covering coverIng cover cover- Ing for tho the walls' walls underneath the balcony balcony bal cony also will be conventionally Cali Call