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Show 7Ve Artf Mabonri otirtg II "It was with the idea of making a strong pro- 1 test against the general habit that prevails among the many young artists of painting a girl before a mirror, that I first began to try to paint men," ! said Mahonri Young, as he dabbed a bit of brown on a brawny gentleman who was starting a left hook to the jaw of a burly opponent, on the canvas in front of him. I "Do not get the idea that I am averse to the other sex; oh, no; but I had seen them variously painted for so long that I began to think with many another that the average artist was rather effeminate, and I longed to paint something that would be distinctly the opposite. "And the night I exhibited those two work-ingmen work-ingmen at 'The Club' in Paris, I felt that I had the right idea." That Hon. Young has the right idea, and to show that his art is appreciated, even in his own country, even the press where he used to devil in the art room is singing his praises, and a future fu-ture is predicted for this young man of ideas. It is in such studies as the workingmen above that he excels in his pictures, though his remarkable re-markable work as a sculptor has won him recognition recog-nition in the big Parisian city, where it is harder to win than elsewhere. The portrait above is that of Alfred Maurer, an American artist, the picture being taken from the original plaster. The portrait is in bronze. The walls of Mr. Young's studio are covered with his pictures, which, in variety, almost run the gamut of art. When it is taken into consideration that beside be-side his pieces of sculpture which have appeared in the Paris Salon, he has had drawings, etchings, pastels and water colors pass the censors of that institution, the four years abroad can scarcely be considered wasted. Observation has done much for him in his water color work, and there's something differ- ent in his little Parisian street scenes that appeals even to the layman. Among the pictures he is displaying which are especially good, two, "The Conspirators'' and "In the Cafe," are most notable. The color and the lack of it in the picture of the cronies at a table in a dingy cafe is a marvelous bit of work. "The End of the Act" is started in a fascinating fascinat-ing idea, and finished in a picture that tells a delicious de-licious story of what was missed before the curtain cur-tain dropped. Then, too, there is a picture at the ringside which might not appeal to those who do not relish the encounter fistic, though the most cynical of critics would have to admit the force of the thing. Hon Young is not long for Salt Lake, for there are fields where his talent can be used to better advantage, and there is only one good artist here who has had business ability enough to make a good thing out of his work and remain. The $50,000 commissions do not have their beginnings here. |