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Show UTAH COUNTY ART- I 1ST WELL RECEIV- I , ED IN EASTERN I ART CENTERS I ' Jno Hafen Holds Fxhihition in Indianapolis Is Recognized as one of Country's I ending1 Landscape Artists Clipping From Press. Many proplo of TTtnh county will bp glad to brnr of fbo progreH bo-Sng bo-Sng mndo by John Ha fen, the fam ous Utah artist whoso homo is In this county. Sinco he went cast several months ago his success has been most evident, nnd ho Is now ' recogn!7(d ns one of the foremost landscape nrtists in America. TTIs jA oxhibitlons held in tho Marshall Field building, Chicago, brought Mm prnipo from every critic. Tho Jt newspapers wero liberal In giving notices nnd without exception ex-pressed ex-pressed surprise tlint tho west could furnish siHi nn nrtist. Sonic of Mr. Unfcn's work will be exhibited nt tho B, Y. U. in tho near future. I To Is at present giving nn nxhi-billon nxhi-billon in Tudinnao1!s. Tho follow-lug follow-lug nrtiolo appeared in tho Tndinn-iHilis Tndinn-iHilis News: The picturesque attractions of Brown county nro at last beginning to bo heralded, and tho rnra beauties of tho bills and little valleys that lie alongside tho quiet watercourses, all of which aro more beautiful than the local names thoy boar would lend ono to expect, nre soon to bo made known on many can. vasses. Beginning today and coin tinning for two wockfj, John ITafen, 'H a pupil of Bnnninln Constant, and of Jules Lofebro In Paris, whoso homo Is In Springville, Utah, will 'H havo nn exhibit at tho art gallery of L. S. Avrcs it Co. of thirty-two oil paintings. Tho greater number of these aro of the grand mountain scenery of Utah, n few of the neigh- horhood of Chicago and n dozen are scenes In Brown county, Indiana. Mr. ITafen expresses himself ns delighted with the artistic possibll-iltcs possibll-iltcs presented In Brown county, whero ha has been sinco July, his landscape nyrio being n cabin on "Cheerful Hill" near Nashville. He 'N lias not yet finished his work tlicre for tho year. to nirrunN in snow time. "I shall rclurii,"said Mr. TJafen, "when the snow is on the Brown county hills. In tho meantime, tin-til tin-til April, T shall remain in and near Indianapolis and then shall go to Boston to pin co nn exhibit nt the H St. Bololph club. Adolph Scliulsrs ,H the Chicago artist is responsible for JN my summer nt the Pittninu Inn, Nashville. He told niu of tho -iH glories of its hills and valleys and I -N went there. While his powers of description nro good ho had not told ill tho story by half." Among the most strikingly beautiful of tho scenes as portrayed XN by Mr. ITafen are "Moon rise in Peaceful Valley,"in which is shown lM tlio town of Nashville in all its picturesque beauty bated iu a golden Hood of moonlight, while the sky is banded with ribbons of gold and green nndnzuronnd permeated with a radiant glow of criniBon, In quite a different tono Is the canvass "A Foggy Morning," in Tvti-rcinrnr -rrtru-tmi" nreT0" "gtitssts S while the grasses aro oozing with the moisture of the earth-drawn clouds. |