Show YOUNG UTAH IN PARIS by courtesy of mr dan the well known artist of this city we have been enabled to peruse a letter from edwin edw in evans evane one of the sons of utah now in paris going through a course of training in one of the leading schools 0 of f art we are also permitted to make from it the following extract I 1 left salt lake city on the morning of sept 3rd ard and arrived here on the after spending about ten days in engana En gand in the cities of liverpool sheffield and london I 1 entered the academy julian on the ath of this month having just finished my third leei week I 1 have taken out one year yearns Is tuition in this school which time will be spent in drawing from the casts and life if my means hold out I 1 should like to stay another year and do some painting but will see about that later on on my way over I 1 visited the metropolitan museum of new york the walker art gallery liverpool the national art gallery and south kensington museum london and many other places of note in england there are some very flue fine paintings in london ahead of new york but paris has such a wonderful display of paintings and statuary on exhibition that those of america and england become mere sideshows one can spend two or three days in the luxemburg and one week in the louvre galleries alone and then not be able to take in all the paintings to be seen there then there is the blak and white exhibition where you can spend another two days to good advantage this is the first place that I 1 have struck that I 1 have not passed some remarks or criticism but these paintings 99 are so far beyond expectation pec tation that I 1 could only stand view viewing ing them in blank amazement in looking at the works of the old masters in the galleries of london I 1 was almost leti led to condemn some of them especially raphael but on entering these galleries I 1 find quite u I 1 e a different thing and W raphael is all that the world claims for him I 1 suppose those of his works that are exhibited In England were painted while he be was yet an amateur the paintings of the modern masters in color seem to be nearer the nature of today though it may be that the colors of those old paintings in have changed or faded some this this city is a very nice bice clean one the principal streets are swept and washed every day and one can walk them and feel comfortable for if you are not dressed as the ordinary people are you are not looked upon as an oddity the public gardens are filled with sculpture and in the public buildings also in every design of architecture sculpture has its share everybody takes a great interest in art the air is lull full of it and show windows are lined with it passersby passers by will and examine small illustrations that are hanging out on OB the sidewalk that our people would think nothing of if placed claued in show windows over there but such is their love for it probably you would like to know how our time is all put to in over here it is in this way we are up in the morning by 6 have breakfast by 7 and start for school which is a three miles ml lea walk and reach it by 8 ghis walk to anti and from school gi gives avem vem a d fine ne exercise ex ercse I 1 we are in school until 6 5 pm less one hour for dinner supper is over by 7 or we then devote the evening until in studying anatomy french and history this is repeated daily except sunday which Is devoted to worship we hold sunday school in the morning and meeting in the afternoon in which brother clawson and his family join with the four of us and have a very entertaining and beneficial time for all are enjoying the bene fits granted through our most holy faith returning to the subject of araj art I 1 will say that drawing is what 1 I thought it to be but the way in which these frenchmen get at it Is not what I 1 thought it to be and after studying it I 1 see more of your stylo in it than I 1 do of some of our utah artists of course there is a reason for this our boys have not had bad proper training it touches teaches one to study the anatomy of the figure and to search arch after the values of making every stroke of the charcoal indicate dieste in something etc to one who has been used to the bromides and at firszt appears crude cru and rough but when the proper handling to is obtained it has a wonderful effect the cry Is learn to black in the shades and finishing will follow the most anost of the students at this school which is heavily attended by americans have all had some years of experience in art and the majority have attended the schools of new york others the munich schools of germany I 1 think I 1 am the only one who has not bad more or less lea experience in painting before enter ing this school I 1 think all of our utah boys have had less lees training than the others and yet they are doing fairly well compared with those who have spent from two to six years here there is one thing sure in my case I 1 have not learned anything that will have to be undone as some say they have and they all say the best beet fo for r a beginner to do is to come here A person must expect to stand some V fly very hard criticisms from the professor or and often the students get a laugh on each other by his remarks when viewing their work such as you have the color of green cheese or it looks like a bull frog etc but of course it is the criticisms that do us good and we have to grin and bear it and if I 1 make a success it will be through the blessings of god and hard labor and I 1 hope to be able to reach it |