Show nome HOME ART CRAYON por PORTRAITS TRAITS BY 11 AFEN it would be well and timely for those who have at heart the cevelo development ment meat of hume talent and the future of utah in art culture to give something more thana than a passing passin notice and nod of approval ili fal roval to the patient toil and success lul lui results achieved by our local artists among those who have risen from obscurity to a position which is in itself a prophecy of what the future has in store for our territory in this diorec dionis a young youn man named john hafen of springville Spring ville this youth who attained lis ills liis year today to day and has labored up from childhood without any of the them advantages enjoyed by other boys boysy in cultivating his native ability has nevertheless won success b both oth as a portrait and a landscape painter and is already entitled to a place in the front rank of rising artists his latest productions which chic are in crayon may be seen at savages gallery they are portraits of gen an 11 S eldredge and anahis his little son aged about ai 2 years the picture of the father is a mammoth copy of a photograph measuring 3 ag G by 48 inches and enclosed in a 6 12 inch combination frame of bronze and gilt it was executed to order and the artist has received for his work exclusive of the frame which is savages it isi is a fine portrait of gen eldredge I eidl idl and its faults if it has any are arc quite thrown into the shade by its many points of excellence it occupied ten days time the childs is also a splendid likeness and the family we understand are much pleased with it it is somewhat smaller than the other measuring about 30 bd by 40 inches and has a similar frame the T e cost of j it without the frame is 50 it was executed in about a week general eldredge has laid out in the neighborhood of liw lim 1100 of late in encouraging cou raging home talent of this character and others equally able have also done well in the same direction and many more might emulate with credit in proportion to their means such stich co commendable men able abie examples mr hafen says he be has ascertained ascer aseer tried that from f rom 1 I to are sent out of the territory t annually for orders of this description crip tion A great cleal teal of this money might be kept at home and local talent thereby brought forward and developed with no loss to the patron if such artists as hafen and others equally promising were employed the little town ot of springville Spring ville which has already deuced a sculptor of marked ability in young dallin and an artist of genuine merit in hafen begins to loom up as the birthplace birth place of talent that will in ili all probability make its mark in the annals of art culture in the rocky mountains |