Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-07-30 | Page 9 | Cecil Smith, Cowboy-Artist, is Newest Utahn 'to Arrive'

Cecil Smith, Cowboy-Artist, I Is Newest Utahn 'to Arrive'! 1:' you want to be a western artist the thing to do is learn all you can about horses, range cattle and Indians by living a cowboy's life. That's what Cecil Smith did, and he is Utah's newest western rill's newest book, "Ko-l-Chito, the Indian Boy." Another book is now in ths process of compilation, and Smith plana to remain in Salt Lake City until it ia completed. Both Cecil Smith and Professor Merrill will appear on a Salt Lake Tribune-Telegram broadcast over station KSL on Friday at 7:30 p.m. artist to "arrive." Smith was born In Salt Lake City in 1910, and was reared on his father's cattle ranch near Carey, Idaho. Beginning in 1927 he studied art in Salt Lake City and later at Brigham Toung university. His dashing, vigorous style of drawing is unusually well adapted to expressing western life and, cow country scenes. His first full page of art, together with a story of a wild mustang roundup is scheduled to appear Sunday in Tha Salt Lake Tribune magazine section-In section-In 1938, while at B. Y. U, Smith became acquainted with Professor Harrison R. Merrill, and this spring he handled tha illustrating in Mer-