Show nn 1 2 THE ARTIST OF THE PLAINS S t J H Q t Work of tho West jj MiK u u u MiK u u u There holo are In Paris certain who It n a practice to lu bu whatever they can of ot the di awing pictures of U Iha ho most promising art all Btu HIli of or who lio win prizes nt at tho MIl or ai secure curo early recognition by of ot th Ihl im o lUllS lons 1 was WAH reminded of these t h all speculators yesterday when whon I visited tha ex ox exhibition which Frederick I IH nt 4 In lit Fifth It tl Is III far III Om my Intention to 10 Mr II with nn stu students tu dents 01 but I am all thinking of 0 him and his work worl an liS the tho will re It II and an UK thos speculators in would value It were they UH In New York YorkI I t wish 1 had the menns 1 lnA to buy bl every In exhibition it Ir only for tor tho I Koll In ulu that will wi come to them it u 11 few years to t come COle Ii noticed Hae ou ever eer thought or o how thoroughly the the he I publishers of 0 this country know the truth of or what I nm saying In every j W lre and weekly jon 1 see pee Imitations I of oC r lr Ien cow cowboys CUI boys bOYI linen n and Jn 1 nil ni ort art you ou see ee water colors pi Hits paintings copied after ufer his hili pictures I Imitation IH III not the t I U Ils Is the highest praise prise A host of at men lre Imitating this pictorial historian of at the til building of ot our ur West Welt because they know kio how ho true and able n ble his Is and because the Iho true Irue dra dramatis tr matis of or that vanishing epoch cannot be without rop ln tho tc types I PI and tableaux which Iteming ton tl h made his oun oln Moreover It would seem that Hem HemIngton Ilm IlmIngton Ington hal drawn all ni that Is salient lent I and dramatic In the lives les of ot the tl winners winner I of at our West Wesl There remains In n nil that varied field fel of at rough activity noth nothing ing In which he ho haK not put on paper One why lie 11 lias achieved so unique a n place as the of ot those scenes Is that he hI hos lived ninny of ot the life Ile of the len hunters loved It I nil ni as 11 keenly ns aH a 1 man could Upon leaving col college lege Jegl lio Iw became n sheep heIJ rancher n a n beneficent fortune which did ld not nol nt C t the tl time eem so cry Ir kindly J Net Hel Wm hin afloat In the tho roughest t there was thus to learn the worst and hardest phases of ot tho ho bor Ilor existence after having known the brat lr t tAl All Al the tho other artists with wih similar listen 1 y too lato IntI I r 1 t hod scene cone RHel tho Iw cur clr thin 1 11 f e the unit to tl IIII up upon I on a II new IWI drama anil l l I am ii us ll out In fu ii upon tho th I today Them was therefore no ni can never up UI n 1181 IWI to II nothing left for any 1 t r or ft to live lve the mocker tr of Imitation nn government or nl At A drew with differ nr I t 01 to collect In some or 01 the reflections of 0 th fon nd I MR beyond tl of lt tho middle West Item Hem HemIn In lon work and 11 his Alone must con constitute COl the collection It I U II most strange that IhIE litre should l It n but one n lUst in III nil al that tract tact HO 10 long a 1 space pace of or time and there thel should have Ille been no i D r clerk of 01 events WI u mi not that palm to 10 whose outweighs out tho tu 1111 t In Ills hb earliest und 1111 moil 1011 IRI I of 0 the limited em und dl of the prospector and miner miller hen h n ino une lowI the lie exhibition tion lon II if work hu hI If 1 Ie e Is l a It If ninn an un tho pit tureH of or which ho he has haH Iny except of ot course those i which carry nry ball bad Imitations of or thin pioneers work The h difference Is both holh peculiar mUll It I Is tho Iho difference between work Wil along the linos of ot the tho old of ot rupe and original Independent pun iv pOI or 01 Individual effort For l or Is IR ns nM I once be tore foie In II this column the only American In nil that term now living He ln Hum ung himself Into In to this thiN lift II work f r his IlS In n series of called caled forth 01 th by b J Watson Glider before h hI over nw an art school or could distinguish between the tho or al products til dualist k achievements of the Ih Km I opium painters Ho I hall had drawn I began to 10 of ot his when ho he wan u 1 buy y ut al school In M t Lawrence county Hut h hI drew drewIn 1111 In his own l 01 1 e n 0 dr wn or painted In any other ny since then Ihen Being 1111 n I tu LI ne Il u a on an article about th Ihl In Indians 1 he hc for tor the th Magazine did It I Ho 10 like the cowboy In one of ot his who wan WIlI met some lome of 0 miles from pull In n I horse hOI along by b UH 11 halter HI H IK t limited for his hil pastime by ny O ln Ie KOI lot It II to do Jn ln the nim way W had his hil tu sit to 10 do and anI ho he did It I If H you could Nee Ht his first yon 01 I see He how far tal he hR has pulled that lame Ilme that day It I h I tine hu Iw took a little Ill school but Ku Hu methods and standards of taste lan an oft off him without adhering to 10 him anywhere Ills concern was WaH hUH been to be Thel are arc 1101 all al over oyer the tw world who may ia at lt times produce n I more h elaborate h ond hc h picture 10 1 tin of If dress ornament and ap apparatus 1 but bUI h II as al with his hlf costumes ns 11 IMwIn A hll O or comet In hi ils horse para ph ns l 11 wlm ever I oil II us IH due Iu to 10 fact In tho Iho of n weapon wen lIon and the 11 way uny a man could han handle dle dh It iu as till can cal be III Ills Is Is la a revelation of 0 the progress 1 reSH he hUll Ims made not In drawing for tOI he could not easily distance his for tOI former mer Inor best besl In respect but In feeling In Immunity emotion and In II dra dramatic matic malc attainment Ills Hs ambition IN 1 and his energy seems to 10 have no ilo bottom 0 I a 1 It I Is said sa among his hili friends he hAs hns begun to uncover a 1 new very er Important branch of ot the enterprise which took so 01 ninny forms torms among those who broke ground for our railroads farms arm and be beyond h yond tho Mississippi and above be beyond yond the great lakes lalA This new lew study Mull of ot his this resolution to picture a n part of ot Uie soene that he has scarcely touch touched ed 1 Upon except In one or two trips he took with wih me 11 for tor Har Harpers pers lors Magazine Is II a nl undertaking ing n Partner he h said the last time I Ila saw la him hll Ot I used to think that If I t buckled down to It I and worked ceno lessly for tor twenty or years I might maybe layle get a halt half n IL day off or for tor rest but I see Beo U It Is not possible Ive got ot to t keep a n move moe on for tor another few decades Julian In Mall Malland Mal and Express I |