Show I HARRY CULMER'S PICTURES I Over in Ill nn an upper room In First South street treet Mr Harry 1 Ii A. A Culmer Cumer artist and aud Utahan has a number num nuru bee ber of oC remarkable pictures the product of or his own brush and brush and his genius We e believe they are ale of a yeh high order of or merit and anti that thc they would create a furore I If rightly presented to the men and tho women of or great cities who haVe hate a sense of ot art and anda a 2 soul to appreciate marvels man out of or their ordinary view yiew For the tho most part these pictures are of or Utah scenes They depict the scenes and tho the spirit of or tho the desert There are arc the bridges all marvelous and yet et not b by any means mean the most impressive o of Mr lr s 's work More lore tol arresting than thun these Isono is isone isone one ono of oVa ofa a mighty bluff f four ur thousand feet fed In height which bears a rough semblance to a temple and which has has' been named in honor of oC that Smithson who founded a museum and a fun fund for tor scientific study tully in the tho United States One is it a view of Bluff a desert town with Ith amazing win wind carvings carvings in sandstone sandstone sand Band stone in the left foreground tho the embowered trec cIt city the San Juan river and its mesa as a back back- ground Another has been called colled the Acropolis It ItIs Itis Itts is ts a mighty hill hili surmounted with what seems a structure reared b by the tho hands of man IDan with scores of white columns all aU of or uniform height and each with a brown capital exactly square Tb There ro are rough tops and porches and recesses and projections projections pro pro- but hut the general form of a gigantic temple Is preserved There Thore is a moonlight in the Rio Virgin can canyon on a succession of lofty monoliths of stone lifting sheer from the sand of the desert to hundreds of ol feet In height And there is tb the matchless marvel and beauty of color am and the exquisite atmospheric et which only masters can prison In paint Mr Culmer's IC I Mystery pf of the Desert has hus been becu shown It formed the text tet of ot his recent lecture J before the Women's Literary club It Ills Is an sive ivo picture totally unlike an anything c conventional u found in the galleries of the East EasU An And yet for him hini who can recognize art In an unusual expression these pictures are revelations Probably the most startling of the collection now In Mr Culmer's studio is a river and mountain scene from the Teton country to tho the north There is clear still sUIl warm water at the forc foreground rak 13 summer summery ferns terns and grasses where points of or land project mi midway mio o from the left lett an and tho the right the water r sweep continues to lo tho the distance where it washes the base of ot a n girdled forest mountain and and that mountain lifts i g-i gigantic Into the everlasting snows bearing a living JIving glacier and piercing tho the sl sky y with Impre impressive s se e rugged strength We have mentioned but a oa a few oC or Mr pictures His Organ Rock flock is well weH known WI Wo regard him as having done dono something of or vast credit to the tho stale We C believe beleve if his pictures could bo ho presented In appreciative circles a n Utah vogue would bo be stalled stai-ed Instantly nm and that the natural won wonders ers of this state would bo be visited by people who now know OW no nu more about them than they do of the mythical mountains of the Arabian Nights And above e nil all that the goo good name of Utah bo ho vastly accredited because of oC tho proof this wan man Is giving of artistic scenes and alit artistic ability It is a pleasure to record here hero the fact that Salt Lake knows and anti honors and appreciates Mr Ir Culmer |