Show CENTURY MAGAZINE GIVES UTAH ART ARTA A BOOST IN NOVEMBER ISSUE Recognized as the First to Establish a State Art Institution k For a half century Utah has modestly borne bornet the the t ic reputation of having a thrifty industrious population This This This' is a splendid recommendation for any people but we do not bear it wholly from choice hoice we have to work and save out here or starve Of late however we are acquiring a reputation which is not earned through forced circumstances but which comes to us because we have an inborn desire to lift our heads above the soil in which we grovel for a living We Ve are becoming known as an artistic people It will surprise the proud inhabitants along the New England shore the home of American culture to read in the November November November Novem Novem- ber of the Century Magazine that Utah has the distinction of having been the first State in the Union to establish a State Art Institution In 1898 Mrs Alice M. M Home planned and successfully carried through a a project f for r the establishment of such an nn organization persuading the legislature of which the previous year she had become a member to appropriate 1000 annually for foi exhibition purposes Of this amount constitutes an annu annul annual prize which is given for the b best st picture shown by a U Utah ah artist and the rest is expended for charges and other incidental expenses The pictures receiving the theard thea theaward a award ard ard become the of the State and form which is known as the Alice Art Collection Last year through tho the efforts of Mr l J. J B. B Fairbanks of Salt alt Lake Cit City the appropriation was increased to 2000 the additional thousand to be used for forthe forthe forthe the purchase of pictures The inducement for passing the amendment carrying the appropriation appropriation appropriation ap ap- was the promise made by Mr Mr- Fairbanks Fairbanks Fairbanks Fair Fair- banks of a copy of Rubens' Rubens Holy Family in the Metropolitan Museum as a gift to the State With the first additional appropriation were purchased eight pictures all by Utah painters A resident of or Salt Lake City has said that Utah has fur- fur nihed more artists than art patrons but certainly certain certain- ly in few states have th the artists received more moye loyal support or has greater effort been made to bring art to the people Springville in this state votes taxes to buy a picture each year and has hasan hasan hasan an art gallery in its new high school The art rt teachers in the public schools in Utah almost without exception have had professional training abroad In addition to this Cyrus Dallin is mentioned a as having gained special distinction among American American American Amer Amer- ican artists This praise sounds good to the na natives ives of Utah but there is no reason why we cannot take it modestly It is not strange that the westerner is isas isas isas as apt as his brother in the east Indeed he should be a stronger man if he makes the most othis ofis of ot his is opportunities The east has but little he cannot can cannot can can- not not get if he seeks it early enough while the west gives him bim a vigorous body and a mind not overwhelmed by the conventions that often hamner hamper ham- ham per ver ner the man in cultural centers But if the man manof manof of the west neglects his bis opportunities he be can be beas beas beas as big a dunderhead as the easterner can imagine him Every recognized step then that we take tale forward is only a sign that we are doing our duty |