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Show THE SALT LAKE' Magazine Section cA EKA-LD-MEPUB- Sunday, .Feb. 20, 1916 Magazine Section 7C7 J XT y fc' J""Y' m. A I'M'- - iA ' 1 f-- V Ql! r r -- i ir f s.a fetrugrgla In lit-- : Earope no respecter of m either .J i W'-- Jl li. ITursea Serving Coffee, at, a :Way Station, - rfgardi . 7 war that drains to the limit the resources of each nation must call on every clement. So that In the trenches are to be found. l&e by side, musicians and painters, and bricklayers, and carpenters, and book keepers, all engaged on a common task. To the musician It means In thousands of cases an opportunity to cheer his companions. Scarcely less is to be looked for from the artist, whose drawings are a constant source of Interest an 1 sometimes of wonder to his companions In danger. Many artists have found means of carrying with them through all the tortuous and torturing gam a of hide and seek In dugout and la wood camp certain paraphernalia of art. In cases where long periods have been passed In particular localities artists in the ranks have carried paint and canvas, and many an art exhibition cf tha future will carry m Its lines pictures of war phases actually painted on the Mor commonly the artist work In crayon, ink and pencil cr lr" per-eon- s, those who frel the pres- t nre or those who exert It. All classes of men ar repmented t th various fronts. Tho Bilk stocking and the knit stocking are ido by eidc. Every sort of workman, every sort of artist, may be found in the ranks. A fp-ot- lit Mr . i ,j VI4 Impressive Glimpses of Work by Some of the Poets of the Pencil and Brush Who Are Now at the Front ' t . ' - - j ss i I - s - - , sss x. s "si ; s.s . -- ' si ' ss - 3 s 1 . s j.-s"'-s - 4 i - IT'"!- V,. . w - i r '.'AvV"' '- ' .'x:J--',- r ;:5t-- s' o -- ' . or-, - ; - t ., :i As "':- - : f t'o' - - - - - J ,'ssf- s " , - - 0 it t . ; f 7 x,,?. ' - ; - Y '..- - 1 v.. - t, . '. xx'-l-i'- , 'vi . V. - - x - .s4xj : . .s - V" ff;-';'..-.V' . Drawings ma Je In paper. thH way are more easily fhlpped for publication or for preservation. In scores of cases a draxl soldier's effects have Included a portfolio of precious "Impressions." The pathos of thfse may well transcend their power as art. Ia the field as la the studio the artist Is Influenced directly by the personal appeal. One Is absorbed In landscapes, land capes scarred by the cseorla-tlon- s of war. Another draws figures of women the peasant, the visitors, the nurses f.uttering like guardian angela 1 . la their strangely appealing Another likes the terrible machinery of war, the big unl-fcrrr.- s. s t 'Her Youngest Boy. Drawn by Frits Scfcoen. - . v The Enginery of War. ' ' From a Drawing by Jean Cavelli. and subterranean caverns, will furnish some of the most vivid after-wa- r art. The gigantic gun is a careful study of one of the elements that have utterly changed the character ol war. Seen at this angle, it suggests vividly the meagre chances of merely Individual bravery when that bravery is pitted, however numerously, against modern mechanism. If the gun is new, the heart interest of the blinded soldiers and the stricken mother are old as life! They have behind them the force of accumulated sentiment, the tragic weight of the elemental. and little guns, the wagons, the auto trucks, and all of the intricate mechanism of the game. On this page appears a series of drawings from artists in the trenches which suggests the range of theme that falls to the artist's choice. These take no account of the more familiar, because more frequent, sketches of the strictly every-dapart of the soldier's life. There Is, indeed, the trench sketch of "The Waiting Game," in which the French draughtsman glimpses the tedium of the life below ground. As a matter of fact, underground life, in the pits, galleries man-killin- g y P A Ass-"-'-:-- W Aw-- ' '! A Russian , . The Waiting Game. - Drawn by Georges Bruyer. I Hi" Artist's Tragic Picture of a Group of Blinded Soldiers. V "v. fi - Aim,1 mm 'j ' IT' t 14 . ? f ' v , f' I' , J - ' V JS X r J y Vi - J iii ur, ,?xi. 1 t4 1 ... f. ix . . . ,(.,, ,. Vf |