Show UTAH ART visit to the studio of ef a salt bait lake artist A ft SALT CITY june dune editor deseret news the writer took occasion yes yesterday berday to visit tb the studio ol of one of talented young u n g artists rt lets mr james T ha harwood arwa dy who V h 0 is located in the opera house many ny years ago he be and the writer were seat mites mates in fa the brigham young academy mr Hs harwood wood at once smilingly recognized his bis old chum who on expressing a doubt that he should so easily have remembered jilin him after such a lapse of time was assured that it was not an artists business to forget laces faces a tact fact most vividly impressed on the visitor by examining the work on faces adorning the wall especially a study of barratt in Othello drawn from memory THREE PUPILS were busily engaged in this studio one ae in rough charcoal dk sketching etching the other othe r two in more artistic work one of the latter was lust just completing a crayon sketch ol of a plaster cast of venus venue that was a decided compliment on the skill both of master and pupil it is mr harwoods intention shortly to pull up stakes in the city to take a higher course in the art schools of parts but what will you do with these magnificent paintings take them with you I 1 suppose 9 up pose aled asked the visitor no I 1 shall dispose of them by auction i in V a lew few days I 1 intend to take only that study of a bunch of gripes along here the writers latten attention was called to a splendid re representation on of a cluster of this delicious fruit hanging naturally as it if jut picked from the dewy vine but isbit why did you choose a rou rough 11 p pine board as a background As a line r reminder of your mountain home the question wasn the visitors lips but a fear of exposing ibis ignorance and also the conviction alter after a moments examination that the effect was vastly improved there oy made him pau sefor further develop developments meats what was his surprise then on touching it a moment later to find and it canvass if it is the province of art to DECEIVE NATURE raw unsophisticated human nature then mr harwood has succeeded however the writer is not the only one deceived visitors every day ask similar questions and will not be undeceived without examination just below this picture is that of a bird just in the act ot of sampling oam pling a bunch of bursting ripe i english currants which is as prett prettily I 1 ay it if not so king kingly y deceptive mr harwoods talent however evidently lies iles in landscape landeck land A among mong many pictures or this liss class which space will not permit meation of the one most striking because most familiar to the writer ws was a scene on the shore ol 01 utah me lake near lehi in the background background lies the lake with the 0 airm mountains looming up behind to the left a characteristic apple orchard with here and there some tall shade trees the rest is the most happy delineation imaginable agi of a humble country home birst to the right of the orchard the house a log cabin one room dirt root roof a rickety chimney and a shed in front supported on oa cedar posts dug into the ground THE LOGS ARE AR BARK BARE of bark indicating that they have been set et up and moved many times the ned shed to is covered with slabs which the wind has rattled loose on one oae side in front from a well without windlass some of the boards of the curb hanging diagonally by one nail it if this does not picture the house of the ten acre farmer who spends the rest of his ti time freighting peddling g minin mining or he herding ime d I 1 w where he re w will III you ed find oner 5 farther to th the e right are three stacks of corn an and d a man and adf b in overalls and rea red shirts crossed by factory suspenders are unI unloading more corn while the farmers wife is making her way to her kitchen parlor and d dini dining 1 room roem with a basket ev fian aly C containing 0 1181 ning ne new potatoes and gnan corn tor for sup per farther to the right the farmers ter mers corral cornu and shed the former well built and tour four pole high indicating the stock stockman majo the latter covered with rain and ana sun san browned straw finally in the foreground hau halt a dozen doxen monster varicolored vari varl colored squashes with scanty vines vinesa a patch of cabbages and other unsentimental vegetables with A TURNZY and his bis submissive wives and a flock of cackling hens complete a picture that would pass for a thousand similar homes in these valleys surely you wua wul not take this picture with you to paris to people who live and die among marble palaces such a picture it seems to me would be a decided diversion suggested the writer not so certain about that tha t Is replied the artist rather I 1 tak think sketches of our oar rugged mountain scenery like that pointing to a magnificent ent scene fam american pork foik cation caftan will be likely to take among the parisian at any rate I 1 intend to make a great many sketches to take with me well I 1 suppose this is the last utah will see of yott oh no it is my firm intention to return I 1 believe there is a great future for art in utah far our artists lead the western states and territories ri with the exception ol of california they have taken leading prizes both is in the east cast and on the coast it is the testimony of the art schools of san ban that they excel the artists or 01 even eren so large a cl city as denver H L N |