Show i d I F The Embodiment of the Beautiful I i o o Review of Utah Palette Wield Wielders ers I I 1 I II t r I 1 J I I Ir It I n r t r I 1 I I I IVi r I I 1 Ii Iii IY I i t Vi I i iI i iI I I II II I Z I 1 I I Lt y Ti I o oLt r I r rIf 1 If II GI f f tr I I F Y l ig J I Ij r If r Ji ht u i d lI r Je ell T a ht ro I H r O r rr Illy a y ry r rr rI rA r A I I II Ol t fj a tJ c f 10 Ty TyE E i n HIS will Introduce TO you rou a t set of or long longhaired longhaired THIS TIUS T haired eccentric specimens of ot humanity who are arc the tho most mott ome most mot child childlike like most mOll combination In the world and yet ct taken as a 1 whole the tho most f loveable tho biggest hearted broadest broa cst IS characters In Utah Like the tho majority of ot they the have hae foibles but put them then before beCore a box of oC paints and see lice how Cy quickly tho the paints disappear Put them before jt a n canvass or a pile 1110 of or clay and watch w tho mare mar marvelous e lots lous transfiguration The untidy dreamers of ot dreams lost among tho the Idiosyncrasies of or their Ima Imagination Imagination t I and laughed at by I the world about thorn them walco wake up ul throw their arms In hen tho the air all and tell tho the over ever changing uncertain story of ot lo nature quito quite as successfully as their European iS friends across tho the waters could tell It Some Somo of or them of ot course are arc not properly un understood tood d others of ot them then are aro over estimated while a 0 few tow are aro not estimated at all And If It I presume to be bo the tho adjudicator can you ou Imagine kind friends what a miserable pond nand or of hot water wat r I Ishall 3 ai shall be doomed to swim In until the tho storm id passes over F For or r they the arc are childish every one of them then and ul d take offense when compliments c I I are really Intended They The arc are almost as at bad ba say sayas sa saas sayas as our musicians PRESIDENT 1 OF ART Hl INSTITUTE Mr Mt II Edwin Evans Eons for tor Instance whoso whose name stand stands at tho this head of our local art world by 1 rea reason reason reason son of or his hlf position at our stale university as president Fresl ent of the Art Institute and generally as os art critic and artist is III known know II as a little plump man with little black eyes ees and black hair sarcastic unconventional uncompromising and although his time la is pretty much taken up In university work worle ho conies comes along now and then thon with a can canvass canvass vass vasil full of the time very vcr breath of or life lire His III Grain Stack recently exhibited In Ogden at al the tho eleventh annual exhibition of or the Utah Art Institute Is ad admirably admirably 1 painted A line feeling of at sunlight steals Into all the nooks and corners of the picture and tho the shadows are arc temptingly harmonious and cool after arter all when nature is seen with the tho warmth w of or the sun m playing over It that be bo the tho biggest fact tact of the picture Mr Evans has caught tho the SUn In a dream and pointed painted it without compromise com compromise compromise promise His subject might Just us an well have been beena a potato field or a n sagebrush plain so far tar as a literal translation Is concerned l He lIe was happily concerned with the bigger or truth of mysterious J c and ever changing light Three other names stand alongside alon with his hl hi John Hafen J T Harwood and J B Fairbanks h all the tho vicissitudes The Tho four have havo waded through They The have hare all drunk from of ot pioneer life lite together the well of at hard times and they the have havo all dedicated their lives to their chosen profession with stoical zeal and whatever future they the cannot generations many man have to say lIay of mem Intentions deny den the tho integrity of their BROAD APPRECIATION John Hafen of lato late years ea s has steadily stead 1 been re receiving receiving a broader appreciation His works hao havo and New Now York with been heen exhibited at Chicago considerable success and at homo home lie he has earned carnell the title of or Poet Painter INTERPRETS NATURE sold old to the state J T Harwood has ha recently landscape of Puritan sentiment charming a called very er The Old Apple APPIe Tree It is to be he part cu treatment and fooling feeling admired for Its simple of summer warmth In this picture Mr Harwood has risen above ah ve his standard Ho He has hall seen nature of movement full of airy 1111 vibration a slay sky 51 full that arc transparent and a field fiehl that shadows lovers might select s lect as a trysting place of copying cop nature 10 te has hall ht lies ites significance and Interpreted ll and that Is Is true art Mr Fairbanks was us also admirably represented at the recent Art Institute with a series of typically sketches sl tche call cally Utah subjects and several foreign His Hh at foggy fo Y mornings amid misty mist moun mountains mountains and hazy valleys s are arc especially line The sentiment of mystery found In the uncertain stretches of mountains that pierce the Hist hest light needs dreamer of to In Interpret Interpret ni of the iho drawn a 11 Fairbanks fills III the bill hili Ills 1111 I It and Mr 11 of gift rift to the thc state of or a copy COP The Holy Hol Family after Rubens Is to bo he especial especially ly I remembered CHARACTER ANALYSIS HIS FORTE FORTH FORTHM and Inci Incidentally incidentally primarily a sculptor M I M 1 Young Youn Is familiar to and palmer dentally lien tall draughtsman drau all as the big ph physical heavy weight possessing tho limo Intellectual ability of or close character s Mr 11 Young stands for purely art problem problems lem lems He cares little whether Ms work orle Is III pretty preLL ugly attractive or repulsive so long Ion as the or ulterior character of or his mole model takes form Ho IIo a umes that a man Is not to be read by b super Ruper nor understood by b merely mere I a copy cop no matter how technically of the out outward outward outward ward physical characteristics Ho probes some ome somewhat somewhat what underneath with tho the Idea Illen that art after all Is not a simple copy coin of nature but hut rather a n means moons of or heightening our appreciation of r It the lay lav mem members members details scorn scon t what Is known knowlI among bers ben as exactness and reaches out for the tho of or his subject the tho constructional lines hues and sweep even event the play of light which the tho painter alone rather feels teel Is 18 purely for Co I the painter Mr Ir Young Youn YounIs is a young man yet and we can cun expect somo seine great work worl from his hands ARTIST WHO LOOKS THE PART With similar liar proclivities Mr Lee Lep eo Greene Rich Richards ards ars artist to even the Vun Van Dyke DYko ho he sports on his chin and the curls on his I moustache Is particularly successful In combining and wonderful tone qualities Perhaps that explain dear friends Well it simply lImply means that Mr 11 Richards Is far tar more than por portrait portrait portrait trait painter ho Is intellectually and soulfully an artist Ho lie love lore his work worle tot for its own sake ho loves natural phenomena front from tho the same at attitude attitude attitude and that combined with considerable European training and an abundance of good goods goode sense e will land n him h n some somo fine day In the mys mymi mysterious I s future u as s a complete I t artist Dear Dent friends s of or the tho business world could couill you OU enter Into the paradise of Mr 11 Richards vision you would most probably find that there thele are arc pleasures on the weary road quite unique of or them olve and possibly as strenuous as gold Eold getti with tho the repose of ot contemplation as all guide t I l lI f I t tI I I II s I t I I I i iY Y P f Jm I 1 Ye t d V l J tit Ii Jill J ATHLETIC PAINTER PINTER Closely connected with Air Mr II Young and anil Mr lIr Richards is Mi Mm 11 Wright right for fOl some somo time associated with wilh the thu B Y c at tit Logan Jogan and generally known us m a pretty prell hard man to handle not only with the tho gloves gloc tho the foil and In argument but In and methods of or painting as well Mr I Wright Is the tle most prolific portrait painter Fainter In the tho west and Is Js extraordinary suc successful successful In his ills analysis of If character His range rane and anti versatility were fittingly shown both at time the thelast last state fair fall and at Ogden A portrait of Miss 11 V S certainly Gives Whistler a close call In its combination of at tone qualities and al another smaller cam canvass oss In pastel of a girls head possesses po peculiarly striking tactile values or In tho the yare vere at the lay la member pastel a feeling of oC ac actual actual actual existence Certainly Certain this Is one of the requirements of any In completed nr ar and anti we ae should like to have hac Mr 1 Wright right continue It YOUNG AND PROMISING G Young Youn Mr 11 Fairbanks Leo son eon on of or J B Fair Fairbanks banks Is II s a director of or art In the public school of or Salt Lake City and Is producing a great many very vcr line dime sketches particularly line Hom tho the point of or view viett ow at composition HV compositions are arc Invariably good Principally landscapes and those mostly of ot mountain nooks filled with quaking aspens and pine and anti flowers He lIc Is I very exacting In selecting his point of or view eliminating unnecessary detail and elaborating LEADING WOMEN ARTIST Among the lIc women woven folk there Is ono one name which stands preeminently above alJoe all tho time rest Miss Mary lea lIel Her Iier dream of life with Its subtle charms and How 1101 of harmonious harm connections Is reechoed In her hel work many times with w Ith variations that only a purely feminine character who lures loves her work could give IIer Her painting of tho the Trench French Peasant Knitting now owned by b the tho state stands as her Iier strongest work The breadth of conception and simplicity of oC tone tempered by b the charm of fem feminine Individuality wilt will make the picture live IIvo long longin in the future tutule ALFRED LAMBOURNE LA XI POET Likewise a n lover of or abstract musings a poet by b nature an In artist by Mr Alfred Altred Lam Lambourne bourne has stood for many mallY years a champion of or culture His HI contempt of or mundane pleasures his ridicule of or happiness through gold his tenacious light for the tho emancipation of ot the time artist from the lure luro of oC public applause along with wilh his many man literary and artistic pursuits has won him the UIO title of or Father If It the younger gen generations generations orations of or aspiring witnesses will direct their energies In a path as purely honest an as he lias has none aone young ounE America Am may ma well expect to become serious seriously ly I a cultured nation WELL KNOWN K OW PORTRAIT l PAINTER Although Mr Will Claw Clawson son has been devoting his hili time lime of or late years ears In California only ani recently returning to his native home In Salt Snit Lake he needs need Ii Iino no Introduction especially to the social world ills His many mall portraits of prominent citizens ens of or Utah attest an acknowledged and favored standing as asa asa a lL portrait painter His subjects are soon soen through a veiled light that Is especially specIal pleasing to sitters Tho The dramatic element clement of or nose pose combines with lira Immediately wins popular appreciation Ills ar of oC drapery under varied lightings in tn invariably variably show the splendor of or rich costumes which to goes admirably with the other elements clements of ot his i work CONTRASTS ARE HIS IUS FORTE i What Mr 11 Clawson Is Js In portraiture Mr Culmer I 1 Is In landscape Ask n a lay member what they the most 1 t like In nature and they the will toll tell you ou a pretty sunset Ask them how they the like it and Immediate Immediately ly I they the reply ren definitely Ask them for tor the next best and they the will say sa the tho effect of ot the sun Bun on snowcapped peaks with all Its attending detail 1 or 01 a summer river side with blades of grass shoot shootIng Ing In up around It and the leaves of at tho the trees hang nang hangIng i Ing about picturesquely from their branches Mr Culmer has hag spent his Lila life In ha portraying these ef effects i facts He lie delights In tho the sudden contrasts of at light and dark he loves brilliant sunsets and has baa i iwon broad popularity 1 I IThe won accordingly a IL spread The tact fact that tho the Commercial club of at Salt Lake Lako I t selected Mr painting of the great natural II al ul bridge e Augusta n a 1 photograph of which Is re reproduced reproduced reproduced produced above as tho time picture which was subsequently subsequently subsequently presented to President Taft on on the occa occasion occasion hl I sion abort of his visit vl lt to the city Is in itself an Indi Indication cation of ot Mr 11 standing as an artist There are aro other names of oC Importance such as G 0 W v Browning who Is thoroughly thorough I of ot an artistic i temperament We Ve regret that he lie does docs not devote more time to practical art mt problems and spend less time as a 1 business man I Thero Thera Is Ig Ramsey Ramse who has demo dono a number of ot portraits this year year and whose exhibits at tho the re recent recent cent coat state fair tall attracted attention and one can cannot cannot not forget time the veteran Ottinger who still turns turna out ant an occasional picture Mrs rs Virginia Stevens Steens should be remembered rem also for tor her splendid success as us a director of or art among tho tine younger oun er generation at tho the State Un I Although wo we never see seo a canvass In tho the exhibitions that she has nas dono done she has hns the correct artistic temperament and an abundance of ot nervous energy which Is gradually telling on tho the cultural side of our educational system THANKLESS PROFESSION It must be in summing up the 1 activities of or this spurious band of dreamers segre segregated segre segregated gated as they are arc from all the commoner walks i of or life lire that theirs la Ia a profession Quite Quito different 1 from the time ordinary or much more difficult to live livemore more generally generall misunderstood than any other profession pro profession thankless full tull of or thorny thorn paths and und so often orten considered without a serious attitude Tho The average human being looks at nt art as QS merely merel a picture making process The criterion of ot Judgment is 18 pretty pret t or not pretty prett which of or course to tho the thereal real artist is ridiculously absurd How many times ho lie closes his cars to the platitudes of ot people who look 1001 at pictures merely from tho the senti sentimental sentimental sentimental mental superficial point of view of or pr pretty tty or not pretty How often on entering tho time homes of ot his he sees calendars and of or the most poisonous po onous Jarring unnatural tendencies and Is la forced to sit complacently and view them without n II murmur Walls covered and alii Jammed with concoctions con concoctions concoctions of second hand band artists reproduced with tho tine crudest cheapest sort of or reproducing methods These and nn many other equally repulsive condi conditions conditions are aro what the artists havo to contend with But their dream Is that some somo flue fine spring morning conditions shall shull have havo changed People shall have learned that ono one picture well done with the tho soul of or time the artist In It Is worth more moro to their general I culture than ten million chromes DONALD BEAUREGARD ace aire s s Mr c |