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Show pm rrryrr' rr r pi V v " WV W I'O M r.yf BLM deposits The Bureau of Land probably represents a Management has ceremonial offering, deposited seven Louthan said. We are very prehistoric pots in the Edge of the Cedars gratified by the Museum at Blanding. cooperation of the The pots, which Monticello troop and range from 800 to 1000 their advisors," stated years old, were Ed Scherick, San Juan collected after being Resource Area reported to BLM by Manager. It helps us interested citizens. to add to our unOne of the pots was derstanding of local found by Monticello prehistory, and we are Boy Scout Troop 313, pleased to place this members of which pot on public display." were accompanied by Moab District BLM BLM personnel to has a policy of placing record and collect it. artifacts on display According to Moab locally and has District Archaeologist curation agreements Bruce Louthan, the pot with several museums is unusual in having a in Southeastern Utah. but un- BLM also requires concorrugated archaeology and a black and white tractors to return painted interior. artifacts of unique Found alone in an interest to the nearest isolated niche, the pot local museum. exterior Smithsonian News The mood of self doubt that seems to grip the United States as it moves toward the close of the 20th century stands in contrast to the self confidence that swept the nation during the final decades of the 19th century and early -- -- 1900s. That was an imperialistic, nationalistic age, spanning the Spanish - American and western Sun Advocate, Price, Utah 3A for a building and lease it back to bank $15,000 for the building and Eagle they have Eagle. will pay about $3,000 to and from bought leased back to Eagle After the agreement cover interest was made, Eagle charges, County AtMining Supply Co. According to an encountered financial torney Keith C'hiara agreement made last difficulty and was said. year, the firm was to unable to meet the The county will now borrow $16,000 from countys codes and Zions First National specifications and the bring the building up Bank to construct a commission refused to to standards and rent it to another tenant building at the County accept the building. The Industrial Park. The document along with Eagle. Truck damaged Volunteer firemen from Wellington hose down a gas tanker which went off 4 miles east of the road recently, Wellington on Highway 6. Driver Lowell Greene was uninjured when the rear trailer of his truck broke loose from P-l-- E stitutions couplings and left truck was enroute Colo, with a load of had been Green's years of service for the pavement. The to Grand Junction, unleaded gasoline. If first accident in 32 P-i-- HesetveTetftaiP created United States. pansion, these urbar capitalists reshaped the nations economic and cultural life. In the vanguard ol the cultural change were artists, architects, designers and draftsmen, who, between the 1870s and World War I, redefined went, American art would be great because it advanced the torch of traditional culture. The goal of this group was to place American art in the long tradition of art and culture and to the Forgotten most part now, they War, Teddy guided and elevated Roosevelts Big Stick the sights of the bill Diplomacy and the paying monied class, building of the many of them just one Panama Canal. generation removed were from overalls and the Those watershed years for shovel. The legacy from American foreign these artists was a shifted as it policy in renaissance from a primarily protectionist role in culture, ranging from the Western new museums of fine to art to ubiquitous street Hemisphere complex global sculpture that symalliances and in- bolized civic virtue the and enterprise. volvements result of new U.S. They believed that ventures. was the America trade It was the Guilded natural heir to the age when the great great European American fortunes in traditions parrails, metals, oil and ticularly that of the stocks were amassed Italian Renaissance in by such families as the the 15th and 16th and felt Astors, Mellons, centuries -- Murray, director of the Bir- mingham Museum of Art, was formerly with the Smithsonians National Collection of Fine Arts, where he collaborated on both ornate Congress, elaborate, structures rich in historical references and lavish with murals and sculpture. City planning and slum clearance got at an exhibition about the period. What exactly did D.C.s into parks were nations Centennial in designed. Elaborate, celebration an domed state capitol Philadelphia, Urban buildings went up. And exhibition of American memorials marking American any number of octhis Renaissance produce? casions, from the What survives? The rising sun to Abraham list is long and diverse Lincolns achievemethough not always appreciated by many admired and Revolution, many felt themes of Europes the country would take culture, they were a lead in the arts since ambivalent about it was on the way embracing Europe Larzer totally, an attitude politically, of summed up by one Ziff, professor English at the leading renaissance University of Penn- figure, muralist John sylvania, recently told La Farge. We are not a Smithsonian as they are fixed in Resident Associates some tradition, and we seminar on the era. can go where we But Charles choose. Willson Peale had to Searching for the convert his museum perfect symbol for Right after the the products a barn for National Mall area, curiosities, and others Chicagos Lake Front recycled theaters into and in San Francisco. penny arcades for Architecture schools melodrama perwere formed, the first formances. People at the Massachusetts simply distrusted the of arts. Institute 1865. in By 1876, at the Technology Washington, American works of art, says Richard N. Murray. Boston Public Library and the Library of underway American aesthetic establish critical tastes and styles. for standards for then: libraries, museums and universities, among them the Ab- sorbing all the best from the past, the thinking were stride. Americans its their reach and first buildings being born again in the ex- a lease which that the Renaissance derbilts and Whitneys. creative spirit was With the resources set loose by industr) Serv. 1980 $15,000 Van- Rockefellers, ,Juy 2, The Carbon County county would, in turn signed Wednesday Commission agreed pay the company provides that 7 the Wednesday to pay $20,000 for the building county will pay the National past contrasts with present By David M. Maxf ield Wednesday . ri ppwp Hrk County makes cache of pots grooved V rr r nts, were constructed. There was much The artists more. day present who designed the currency Americans of capitalism gold regard the periods the hundred pieces, highly ornamented architecture and art dollar bill, the Lincoln penny, the Liberty as bizarre relics. But many of the dime and the Buffalo nations cultural in nickel. And urban palaces cotand summer in eclectic an tages range of European art drew an en- thusiastic crowd. Yet the exhibit revealed that U.S. contemporary art lacked variety Irreplaceable elements of our visible heritage could be in danger of destruction through the new growth and development projected for Utah in the 1980s. The Utah Heritage Foundation urges Utahns concerned about preservation of our heritage to LdaSPeCia $ America of the period one that would express the idea of a, youthful, moral and the energetic nation artist fashioned the American Virgin. She could be found at all levels of the renaissance the from- culture, Swift Packing Companys trade symbols to the edr'eSo .oOP n' T. In Carbon in the band room On July 16 Emery High School in the auditorium drifting languishing, figures (usually drawn with wings) of the highest art. omo 003BGH5? art schools where the traditions of art could be taught and passed on. At the time, QiiuiTOPMTTWjjXTTl, young fill fin Smithsonians Natiofew nal Collection of Fine acquisitions ap- knew bounds. In Emery County Lowell Curtis, chairman Green River High. School County painters and sculptors were returning in the lined styles fashionable avenues 1870s and 80s from and resort drives. studies at European These were filled with centers. were Artists magnificent furniture, becoming professional paintings, sculpture and decorative arts in the sense of learning Dr. shipped to America and training, Joshua C. Taylor, from abroad. of the The search for new director parently it lot? Grant Fausett, chairman Carbon County Courthouse in the courtroom (most paintings were or landand that many scapes) American artists had insufficient professional training. The exposition led to the establishment of same eafc Spea portraits more - "j: couo'Vout!1 in eacn fcu?,s? - When Arts, for imso many art porting treasures to decorate homes he designed, the architect Stanford White stated: In the past, dominant nations had always plundered the works of their reproached says. The POOR MAN'S LOBSTER bankers, lawyers and businessmen could relate to this knowledge during the CMS American Renaissance was the key, but money turned the lock. Besides looking to for a sense of Europe predecessors America was taking a tradition, the artists leading place among reached into the past nations and had, of America itself. At therefore, the right to the 1876 fair, 18th obtain art wherever century portraits and she could." other early paintings, Like its rise tc furniture and art power, the United objects were displayed States cultural growth with pride. In fact, although took about a century to ffilfliilj) -- Blanding play planned of BLANDING to The preparing 90S com- a Fourth July memorate the event celebration will be a with a pageant here. special one this year The pageant, an for residents of San Juan County in original production titled Legend", will Southeastern Utah. It marks the 100th be presented to Anniversary of the audiences on July 2, 3 arrival of the Mormon and 5 at the San Juan pioneers following the High School football historic Hole - In - The field here. It will begin at 9:30 - Rock Treck. Residents 1 -- tanr -- n m - - - - -- r 1 -- ii - - tr r J - are each evening. i m m rt - - - - - r - r 0 |