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Show Locran Woman Artist Irs Art Center Exhibit tilizes not the sentimentality lit- el-nl l:ut the plastic to make liU points. She is a true artist as well as being a fine craftsman in her use of technique, mastery of medium med-ium and subject handling to create cre-ate stronger impressions than mere likeness. "Oklahoma Woman" expresses the dustbowl of "Grapes of Wrath" in the arc of blowing dust in the air, in the pallor of dustfilled lungs in the face of the woman. The SALT LAKE CITY The signi-ftro---. '-Utevl women artists to Utah Art shown by the recent exhibit ex-hibit of Mrs. Irene T. Fletcher is again apparent in the current Utah State Art Center exhibit of works by another Logan woman, Miss Emily Farnham, of the Art Department, De-partment, USAC. With a fresh originality in her "modernity", Miss Farnham experiments ex-periments in technique, design and medium often deriving purely farm whose topsoil is blown away is secondary to the woman whose hopes are being blasted with the dust, but who is hoping still. Superficialities mean nothing to "Utah Woman" another in the Women of the United States Series. Miss Farnham has painted her as-elemental, as-elemental, sincere, capable of powerful pow-erful emotions, a woman who could trudge across the plains behind a handcart. Tilrilnr Hollvwood gla- decorative forms. Her virility in her work is almost that of a man and many Utah male artists need look to the strength in their painting paint-ing where either Mrs. Fletcher or Miss Farnham is concerned. Having moved to Utah from Ohio four years ago, Miss Farnham Farn-ham became an instructor in the Art Department of Utah State Agricultural Ag-ricultural college. She had studied previously at Cleveland School of Art, Kent State University, Ohio State University, California College Col-lege of Arts and Crafts and University Uni-versity of Southern California supplementing study with extensive exten-sive travel in the United States and Mevico. Prior to teaching at mour is cracked in Miss Fam-ham's Fam-ham's satirical "Southern California Califor-nia Woman," a comment sharp as the cactus motif. A modern madonna, ma-donna, "Michigan Woman" is ha-i ha-i loed by a ferris wheel. Her gen- telness is untarnished by the fac- tory smoke in the background; her ( look is of the steadfastness of the . delicate. In still lifes, Miss Farnham uses color, line and ' pattern plastically, plast-ically, denoting texture change in her brushwork not alone by surface sur-face representation. No one looking look-ing at them is conscious of paint. They are a personal expression of personal experience enjoyed by Miss Farnham in the originals passed on in her painting of them. The series done at Taxco, Mexico Mex-ico last summer are simple linear motifs played against rich, soft colors to symbolize subjects. The elimination of non-essentials brings out the double task of design in realization of form and synthesis synthe-sis of subject. The most representational work : being shown by Miss Farnham at the Art Center is "Lily White" , a portrait of a negress. The ar- t.ist's capabilities in realistic treat-i treat-i ment is shown in this but it i fails to convey the deeper mean-r mean-r inrs of the more abstract "Sea. USAC Miss Farnham had taught at Ohio State Michigan State, I and Oklahoma A. & M. Her work has been shown at the Faculty Club, Ohio State; Michigan Mi-chigan State; at Denver Art Museum Mu-seum representing Utah in competition com-petition for the 1939 World's Fair; Columbus Art League; Ohio State Fair; Utah State Institute of Fine Arts and Utah State Fair. Her current exhibit at the Art Center is her first one-man show in Utah. Miss Farnham took first prize at Ohio State in watercolors also at Kent State University where her picture was voted most popular pop-ular She took first at the Utah State Fair in 1938 and is represented repre-sented in the State collection. Many articles on art and design have been published by Miss Farnham Farn-ham particularly in the magazine maga-zine "Design." Subject matter has varied from "Motion Pictures Offer Of-fer New Inspiration" (1934) to "Are Artists Intelligent? (1939). Topping the painting of "pretty nictures" in Miss Famham's work tag, noisy broadway masking its genuineness for self protection. "Summer People" comments on the insincerety of vacationists when they have gotten away from the year-round grind. A word about the frames Miss Farnham has used frames that do not strike an incongrouous note . with the pictures or the modern interiors for which they are de-' de-' signed. Acording to one prominenl art dealer, 75 percent of his re- f-r-ylT-n TUSH nip srekiiiE is her feeling and expression. , intellectualized good design, mean-tag mean-tag far more than the literal makes her a courageous painter, whether wheth-er or not, one likes what she has accomplished. According to Don-aid Don-aid b Goodall, director of the Utah State Art Center, "Miss Farnham has possibly not digested thoroughly the various influences "iher work; nonethel sne appears as one of the no, adventurous of contemporary Utah 111 Shrewdly commenting in a documentary doc-umentary way, Miss Farnham u- art dealer, to pc;' - quests come from people seeking something entirely approbate .o the modem interior, not the rococo ro-coco that clashes with the simplicity sim-plicity of architectural features. Many things less "modem" than Miss Famham's are decorative in hem"lvps but fit into any particular par-ticular thPine. In her works shown at the Art Centre there is a fitting fit-ting srn?e cf bsunce and of color col-or relationships. They should net clash with the simplicity of cc. -tain types of the modem home. Without tending toward the Photographic, Pho-tographic, one feels the sea's surge, its glassy calm. The simplified pal-lette pal-lette adds to the effect. Spiritually which might have been lacking in a less "mo'lorn work is found in M3ss Farnham "Portrait of My Mother." In her . 0v;n self -portrait, the Lcgan art-?st art-?st analyzes self without nailery A full pallotte is sensed rather , than actual in "Portrait of Martm Edwards," with its strong line ouali" and vitality. . j York Woman" is hardllv- |