Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-02 | Page 23 | Salisbury Finishes Art Tour

SALISBURY FINISHES ART TOUR So Salt Lake Painter Makes Sketches of California Scenery cS c- c S 5 5 5 4 5 I yrs y 4 SSI SS Si I i- i j 70 S S ot i 4 5 5 55 r j q i 5 6 5 5 5 S S 5 S S S S 'S 55 feSs f 4 O m S. S eSs v kS s 4 i j S 'S S 44 S 'S S Cornellus Cornelius Salisbury head of the art department department depart depart- ment dt df the West high school who has just returned returned re- re turned from a ten weeks weeks' sketching trip in call call- fornia and one o 0 marines painted at Laguna Lagun Beach S. S 4 A I Laguna Beach Beach Colony Trends Trends' Toward ConS Con Con- I S serva Artist Reports Ely By KAY HARMS I IBack Back from an interesting ten weeks spent in visiting and sketching sketch sketch- Ino ing some of the interesting scenic spots in California Cornelius Salis- Salis bury head of the art department of the West Vest high school is full fuli of enthusiasm en- en th and some ideas for tor the years year's work at the school During his stay in California Mr Ir Salisbury Visited the country surrounding surrounding sur- sur rounding Los Angeles and San Francisco and in both places made madea a number of rough sketches in oil which he intends to use isse as material for more mor serious work throughout the coming months Mr Salisbury was particularly in studying the color of water under sunlight and the action of waves and the of his sketches hes are marines The influence influence- of modernism is but slightly reflected in the work of the artists at Laguna beach art colony Mr 11 Salisbury said TREND CONSERVATIVE The trend seems to be back to conservatism Mr 11 Salisbury averred Tho ultramodern freakIsh freakish freak freak- ish art is not acceptable for exhibition zion tion in the colony On request est Mr Salisbury is going to submit some canvases to the art colony committee Election to the colony Is based on acceptance of work by this committee Three Miss Florence Ware Vare A. A B. B Wright and Calvin Fletcher of Logan Logan Lo- Lo gan are at present members of the colony colon After vIsiting many art galleries and exhibitions exhibitions' and making long sl sketching trips into various locations locations loca- loca including park and the Maricopa Re- Re Redwood wood forest Mr Salisbury to Tijuana No he laughed I 1 didn't go gothere gothere there to sketch And for fear that his intentions I in Tijuana might be misunderstood misunderstood stood Mr Salisbury explained that he was there merely to look One of the most promising of the Utah artists Mr 11 Salisbury was born In Richfield Utah on December Decem- Decem ber 30 1882 the son of Elizabeth EUzabeth and Okey Salisbury Finishing the public schools In Logan he attended the Brigham Young university In Provo where he first studied art under E. E H. H Eastmond STUDIED IN N. N Y Showing definite talent there he was made assistant to Mr Eastmond East East- mond and for two years held that position while completing isis course From there he went to New NewYork NewYork York City where he studied in the theArt theArt Art Students league and later in inthe inthe the Pratt Institute In Brooklyn This was In 1907 While studying stud in the East Mr Salisbury worked in a scenic painting studio to learn to paint with freedom he said Returning to Salt Lake he was employed as a commercial artist by bythe bythe the De Dc Bouzek Engraving company When the United States entered the World war he joined the camouflage camouflage cam cam- department and was later transferred to the hydrographic department department de- de in Washington D. D C C. where he was engaged in making I maps and pictures for tor the navy and for the air forces In his little spare time C 0 studied ta the C Corcoran art gallery and school under Brooke in Washington At the conclusion or of the war he again returned to Salt Lake and began painting theatrical scenery A. A position as art teacher In the Lewis junior high school in Ogden held him f fOj the next four years ears Then he was as engaged as head of the art department or of the Jordan juni Junior r high school and this position r was followed by his appointment last year as head of the art department de- de ot of the West high school school- one ot of the most important in the city During 1924 Mr Salisbury returned returned re- re turned briefly to New York to study landscape painting with John Ii F. Carlson Carison who took the grand prize at the 1923 exhibit ex- ex hibit He also studied with Lee Randolph of San co in 1925 attending the Aspen Grove summer school and in the summer of 1926 attended the Broadmoor art academy academy acad- acad emy in Colorado Springs where he studied landscape under Ernest Lawson and life liCe and portrait under Randall Davy