| Show IT WOUL BE BETTER We it would be better to give more financial encouragement ement to Utah artists many man of or whom havo hao already al won von places of honor In this tills fine finc and unusual fold field of ot professional endeavor cn 1 r rIt It would bo be 1 6 better bettor If it organized d clubs and associations or societies of or all kinde 1 would wo ld strive to possess po sS some somO good bood works of oC art preferably tho the prod products products of homo talent and representations of ot local scenes events or persons This is especially true of oC literary and learned societies fraternal organizations organizations and others that seek to perpetu perpetuate ate ala the tho U e memory of ot what IB is noble In hu human human man mall action or of what hat is beautiful at home or afield 1 It would be bo better bettor for Cor or each ancestral head of or every numerous or prominent nt I family to be portrayed upon canvas as M asan Man asan an for or the remembrance nce of or all aIl than that his name and works should be 00 left leCt merely morely to printing and an memory It I would be better botter to educate c public taste with one beautiful portrayal of ot otI local I l life lito or scenery than to makeshift with a hundred chromes or cheap rep representations I It Is a matter for foi I that the pictures of or several of the Gov Governors Go of or this state are aro painted pa by b home artists More than thirty artists have gone gon from the state tn In order to t prepare them themselves themselves selves more thoroughly for tor their call catl callIng catlIng Ing lag of or these eight are arc said s d to have hwe found it necessary to live In other othor states In order to sell their paintings That this is true and that the work of or local artists is not preferred to that of f strangers 8 langers must be due clue mainly to the tho fact that the excellence of or local talent talents t lent iS s not generally known I Titus Thus when the people of or Utah county count decided to have a monument to com corn commemorate commemorate the tho services of ot the veterans of or tho the Black Hawk war var they the ordered from an Eastern firm a n conventional design from Crom tho hundreds kept In stock stockby stockby by b a commercial company Just such a aone aone aone one as may perhaps be found oun In hun hundreds hundreds hundreds of oC other places and exactly tho the same monument already alread used to represent represent represent sent tho the Southern soldier of the tho Civil War WarNow WarNow Now 10 had a Utah sculptor been em employed employed to do this work there would have havo been created something at least original and we have no doubt some something something thing thin quite as artistic and an striking as tho the conventional al form Corm bought ready readymade rend readymade made When we erect a monument it would bo be bettor better to have havo ono of our own Such Sucha a piece of work Is a part of oC th country that hat produces It a lasting memorial of ot those hoso whoso whose deeds it glorifies and nd a amark amark amark mark by which tho the artist gains Ins that distinction in the minds of ot the people generally general to which his genius may ma fair fairy fairly I ly y entitle him Wo We are told that tho highest lon aba over oer given in tho the United States was awarded to a Utah artist now real resl resident dent of o another State Many hundreds ot of f pictures including numerous paint lags Ings are purchased d each ench year In Utah by b those who have more or less appreciation appreciation of or such works Very Vcr Cow fow ow of these the however ore are purchased from tho the high class artists artist at home who do work vork vastly superior sUP in artistic merits real eal beauty and local association to anything any thin that Is III brought from Crom afar Ono One local artist of prominence after atter a successful experience In Paris has hall been heard to say sa that In five years of o home lome work ho he has sold scarcely SlOG worth of his Many artists are compelled to leave the he profession because It is too un remunerative to live IIvo upon and this th not because enough money mone is la not spent upon things professedly artistic but because the expenditures s are arc as a rule unwisely u or even carelessly made Those who buy expensive e Christmas presents for example usually let their tastes run to luxurious and easy chairs canes writing desks or sets ets of looks in costly castl binding but hut it would bo better to choose a fine lIno oil oll painting of ot some home scene by some homo home ome artist Such a gift ift would be cher elmer not only by tho the immediate re rc recipient plent but by the family the friends and Lind often ot n by whole communities Each year such a gift gitt usually increases in value alue and grows grow dearer to Its possessor and to all beholders beholders It was Keats who remarked that a thing of beauty cannot pass pMS Into nothingness but but Is a Joy forever whoso whose loveliness increases Its years ars rs Finally we judge that it would be better for Cor tho the State to enlarge enl rg Its pur purchases purchases purchases chases of such works of or local artists as depict home scenes for tor city govern governments governments governments ments to do likewise and for tor legisla legislatures tures to extend the work of ot the thoAt th Art Institute by b engaging local artists artl ts to work vork more at home and less I s in n Paris |
