| Show NOTES s WHAT utan UTAH faltens FALTERS rat FAT RS ARE DOING T IV ci diany many afa will remember the tine fine portrait of hon ilono W IL H hooper by this artist which was for a time on exhibition in one of the windows of Z C al 1 A few lays days ago mr air clawson completed a picture ot of gen 11 II S eldredge of which be justly feels proud it being the best ef fort he has yet made not only isit Is it remarkably precise in general contour but in the expression of the face a living intelligence seems to beam from elzry every feature the bust also gives a correct impression of gen El dredges tin fin I 1 A painting which yet remains in mr Claw sons mons studio on first south street S t reet is a full length portrait in pas pa telle telie of the ili iii liitle tle tie son of mrs 11 birdie birdle ird irl cummmings cumminas cummo Cumro ings willie who recently died of diphtheria the little fellow was a bright intelligent child and his picture does him full justice in portraits and figures mr clawson stands at the head of his profession in utah having had a thorough training in the most roost minute details ctet clet alls alis as well as being in possession of genuine talent aifred ALFRED lambourne in his temporary studio over walker brothers store mr air lambourne has placed for the admiring gaze of visitors several of bismore his bis more notable landscape pain paintings tin 8 among them being views on the pacific coast near monterey cal cat mornin morning and evening the gateway of an old spanish church in california and his big three latest productions S roshone sto sao to shone falls hirthe off the sn snake ake river idaho each of the tho three pictures differs from that of mr Cu culm lider liwer er which we noticed a few days since in presenting a different view ot of the falls the largest Is inches in size and shows the falls at their greatest width suo feet just where the water pours over the last and highest precipice just above larce larse fall are a series of smaller cataracts from the almost placid river above so that by the tte time tile the stream reaches the edze ledge where it seems to pause before making the final plunge the water is all commotion the dashing waves belne beine tipped with filmy crests of foam on the opposite side of the river loom the castellated turrets of lava to a hight bight of more than a thousand feet brown and bare the volcanic formation which appears to have been growing for centuries inz luz on an under stratum statum of porphyry of which the rocks and ledges leakes at the rivers edge are composed on the near side of the stream a small rock juts out over the tite chasm and in a crevice in its side Is firmly implanted a it a small cedar which the visitor can hold on to as he gazes into the abyss below I 1 while one watches the raging torrent j pouring into the impenetrable mist the water seems to gradually gra duall duail y flow more slowly until at last it appears perfectly still aill and as a sensation ol 01 being beins carried upward through space with fearful velocity creeps over the tourist he be t t back to terra alrina firma to emerge from a dizziness that would quickly burl him from his perli perilous i position into eternity from this wis point one reaps the full benefit of the awful roar of the cataract which has ona on a let iet night been heard a distance of th thirty airty miles I 1 1 th the e artist artis t in this picture conveys convers I 1 an idea of the magnitude of the fhe wonderful scene at noonday with its j various combinations of 1 ight I ht and dark shades 1 which impresses the beholder witha with a feeling of awe thed Thad the drawing rawln rawin Is after the picture by thomas moran loran A though at the time nir sir larn Lain bourn bourne e made his sketch he hvam was not aware t ilat that great artist bud bad selected the same some point of view the other paintings area aret are inches one looking down dowa the river over the falls and the other looking up tip from below in some respects these are arc superior to the large one as though not so grand the harmon harmonious ious ioui blending of col coi colors 0 rs under different shades of light render them more attractive in IM the upper view the rays of the setting i tin sun pun un as they reflect from th the e river beyond ti the e delicately tinted mist of the falls produces a remarkable effect the s scene c ene from the foot of the falls is not surpassed by even that of niagara which is not I 1 so high by 24 feet as shoshone and though the tile volume of water is greater in the autumn still in flood time when the river at the falls is eight or nine feet higher shoshone falls must be given the palm JAS F HARWOOD this rising young oung artist is now at the academy of design san francisco A AL letter to a I 1 hent lent gentleman leman ieman of this city says that when MT air harwood made application for admission to the academy as a student he was required to present a sample of his handiwork ile he handed in a small study of a cluster of grapes the execution of which created considerable surprise and he was informed that it was without exception the thu best piece of work that bad been offered by any applicant mr air harwood arwood II is to be congratulated on his bright prospects 11 L A 1 CuL cullet mr sir culmer is en engaged 1 aged in putting on canvas a view of twin win falls on 8 the snake river |
