| Show THE RECENT ART EXHIBIT of regret are aro often otten heard now flow by tl those wn who tailed either cither through or n to vUlt visit the late Utah art ri Ml I H In this city Their regret JIM JI IY bo more moro keen If It they Ute realise t h Y of at the opportunity ity they JIta w 4 n J i WAS Indeed a 1 rare heat t fur Jor ev every vw of rt and a B proud occasion fur for AU who had tho the privilege f tb IlK paintings on the tho wall vail Some Soto the Idea that tho the exhibit wana i failure In ono one sense viz In the tho j pi pt Attendance It Is a I do d fact that the tho 10 exhibit was not visited by BO so many runny ua an had been ex expected expected or even as an many as an former ex cx exhibits hibits ha vo attracted The reason for this says say President H IL 1 L A Calmer of ot the tho Art Institute was wan no doubt largely due duo to tho the high toned advertising methods we YO em employed employed Vu Wo We tailed failed to 10 fill 1111 all tho the down downtown town with placards or to have havethe tho ho the streeta streets paraded by a hand Artist Artl tn are of ot a modest temperament espe especially Utah artists and anything that appears enra like advertising Is 18 distasteful to them Wo load had reason ason r to believe that b because cau e the tho exhibit was WAA free Cree tho the hall would be thronged and we therefore failed tRUed to advertise the Iho exhibit as an wr WI should have done Another thing that curtailed curt the tho attendance was wai tho the out location of at the exhibit While It was convenient enough for fol those who took a n lively Interest t In hr It the casual usual passerby who drops Into a 1 thing of or that kind would not lIot go out ut of ot his hla way But mind you w we do not admit that thai the exhibit was nl anything but buta a gratifying success Those who visited vl It are re unanimous in their expressions ot or admiration and they will wait walt a 1 long time before they thoy will ant see ago n a better eel col lection at ot paintings There WitS was not a II poor picture on tho the wall we would woul 1 not let one cne bo be hung up Last February I t visited tho the annual art exhibit of ot Call forma at San Francesco and It Old did not compare with ours OHM for excellence There wore scores score of or pictures ther there that were no better bolter than many that wo we rejected Mr Culmer Is enthusiastic over Utah art and takes delight In telling of ot tho the home homo productions and artists who are aro attracting attention abroad He Ile Is la very sanguine as to the tho future futuro and can see nee In hb eye eyo the tho high station that Utah IS rapidly working worl to as an art U center said Whenever ho the P people PIe of the tho Bust mn mesa he n that u ot of we sst art the lh they y winch comes come from Salt Snit lAke lk There are Utah FUh painters who wo have had work exhibited Vr In the Fai East u and It U 1 tae ha M never tailed tolled to receive favorable comment When J the people the h coast on or of the art Of or the Inter mountain Lake section they refer roter to Sal t art tar for this nixed cUr city in now recoil as an art t center of at no mean hae nOL ll let to me or that odd the which he continued wea at we re e to J tele to fo wo we are wo we are bound getting 1 a start young t bright and we e have man students hero lItro many y who ho are oro oa as Prom t I h IW w r Ising cs M any that can cnn bo ho found any anywhere anywhere where and there Is lb 1 nothing wo dare daro not lope hope for tor tho the Some Somo of oC the boys bo s swo wo we have sent abroad have already made male their mark I have havo in mind Solar Balor n young man inns born barn In Ogden whose work in tn sculpture has found Its way Yay Into the tho richest homes In Frame l He Ire has been In Parts Paris for tor sov soy oral yearn and Is now a I shining light In the tho moot moat exclusive art circles In inthe tho the world Ho Ito still Ogden Ogdon as ns his home and may return to Utah to live In conclusion I nm am very Vel pleased to to as ns a prophecy you may put It down as 19 such that Salt Lake Inke will soon be bo one olle of or the th great art cot cen centers tern tors ct 01 the thi United States Slates Tho The Art Institute of at which Mr Cal Cul Culmer Calmar mar mer la is I president IB Is nn an Institution created by hy the legislature of ot the state In a n bill 1111 Introduced In 1893 1898 by Mrs Alice Afire Merrill Home She was the tho au nu author author thor and an mover of ot the measure mid and It tt was largely due to her assiduous ef or forts fort that the Institute was waa created The bill 1 for tor the creation of or a 1 governing board of ot seven members to be he appointed 11 1 by the tho Gov Governor The board was na nB to lo havo have four tour art lots Ista l ts ono one architect one educator and andone ono one member identified with whit tho the manu facture of or art fabric The board was to give public lectures and exhibitions the latter to be held hll 1 onre a Q year Tim Tho bill provided for nn an appropriation of ot 1000 for two years and antI the same IRmo sum BUnt each year thereafter It also requited the state to spend at each Reh exhibit In the tho purchase of or prise pictures pictured which wore were to form lorm the nucleus for tor n a stale art gallery Title This gallery was to bo be called the Ihl Allo Moe Art Collection In honor honorof of or Mr Mrs Iu Home tho the author of or the tho bill Jill It will not be many years until the tho state will III be the tho possessor a R pretentious art collection which I every citizen will take pride In Tit The paintings that have havo already been bean acquired are among tho the very pry lest hest productions of or local artists There H lit another way WilY by which the state collection Is 19 added nd to that any nn artist desiring to become a n life member of or the Institute eau can donate donato a n painting PRInting of or his bin Own onn worth In to lieu of that sum of ot money lint Is 19 required to purchase a I life lite membership THE STATE GALLERY Tho The paintings that now adorn the state r are Children n of at the tho Sun by George Georce M t r Salt Crested Hocks by Harwood Prayer er by 0 U If H Taggart which Is In reproduced on on this page liege Willow Willows by h O 0 Wesley Drowning Browning Peasant Woman Knitting by b Miss Mary Iary Cloudland by b H n I 1 L A Culmer which It II also riven In to one of tho the ac nc companying cuts cute Forest by b Harwood Since tho the Institute was created It has given Iven three exhibitions two In Salt Lake Luko and one In Logan Tho The board has not decided but where will the next exhibit will be bo held but It will b bl be either Ogden or oe Provo Prom It Is II quite likely the latter place will be 00 1 as th the people of at that city tunes a always wars a n 1 lively in te t In art and In th the tbs work of ot tho the In Moreover the latter has r reo re v calved repeated repented Invitations to come to Provo to exhibit There Thoro Is no provision In the act net to In Indicate Indicate tho the place pin co or time time tho the exhibit t shall shill bo be held but It Is 18 probable that every other exhibit will trill bo be held In SnIt Salt t Luke Lake City as tho the art center centor of or the tho state and more moro encouragement Is given ghen to artists ts here hereIt It Is tho the aim of tho the board to acquire a B building of at Its Ita own to be known own as no the Art Institute where Its Ita exhibitions will bo be hold and anti where visiting painters ot of note noto can cnn bo be entertained a II |
