Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-10-14 | Page 7 | Artcomments

J Until beauty becomes s an inherent part of ot thing things we see and use usaIn usein In out dally daily live lives art must remain remaina a remaina thinS thing thin apart from the experience ot of the tho majority The Tho decorative arts art more than thon any other have a reaching atar-reaching reaching far Influence In bringing about art democracy Artists more and more mor are op co cooperating with the Industry to more products Such Such manufacturers as H II R MallIson and Cheney Brothers show silks designed by Martha Martho Ryther and Hazel Slaughter Some ot of these theae are batik and wood wood block block printing and the designs are suited to the exquisite I AA on Which they nr are aro used craftsman Harry Wearne o a crafts crafts- man of ol great ability works direCtly with the manufacturers and the results are aro far superior to the Usual made machine mado textiles Mr Wearne however sends his designs for tor had d linen and cotton goods to England to be printed From the time of ot the Introduction of the machine In until 15 16 cc or twenty years ago ngo It was necessary nece sary to collect Old plate If one would possess beautiful ul really realty crafts ful pieces Now we have crafts crafts- m men n whose work rivals riale that of the thep p past t Many large lage silverware firms have art directors who are con con- con and critics They also have the services of ot designers and who know their subject well veli While e made mado en- en en ly by hand can necessarily nev nev- er or never nevor be widely Idely distributed many prominent concerns are producing pieces es made partly by hand and tl pe-tl pa y machine From Froni the tha Idea of at Richard T Doone of ot the tho Pennsylvania aca demy academy that there should be more Intimate relationship between the artists and the people sprang sprong the tho function of Art Week In Phila Phila- delphi delphia Philadelphia An original group of 26 men and women aomen omen enlisted the tha aid ot of all the tho art organizations In fn the city theman On the tho Sunday beginning the man who In the opinion of the children In the tho schools the tho mer- mer merchants chants mer who gave their shop win dow dows windows for tor the display of pictures picture and the tho public officials who were ln in the tho progress pro ot of their heir city An the ho Sunday beginning the week the ministers discussed art In JartIn artIn relation to religion On Jart fine Ine during the week the Aca Aca- demy Academy of at Fine Jine Arts at which such subjects as the relation of or art to business were acre discussed In the tho schools Illustrated talks on art were gl en Oy the older children Per Per- haps Perhaps the most successful of all wan wao the display ot or pictures i In the shop s Chestnut street was ass chos chos-as chos IlS as the Street of at Art Exhibitions There There Thero the works of Daniel Garber I rtha Walter Valter John Sloan Robert Henri Frank Linton Hugh HuSh Breck- Breck Breckenridge Breck enridge and Henry McCarter among others were wore shown The throngs which went wont to this tem tern temporary exhibit proved the Interest ot of the people and the different classes from tram a which the tha spectators came pro proved ed the success of the bo ho fir tr f a as Is known no cathedral In either the new or old world has such an sn assemblage of ot statues as that In the new cathedral of St Pt StJohn John the Divine In New York City It Is another hall hail of at fame tame consist consist- consisting consisting ing of 19 statues each one representing representing In each cacti of the nineteen ceo ceo- cen of the Christian era the tho n m abe ho ho In the opinion of ot the Bishop of or New York and a commit commit- tco ten of or clergyman contributed most to the moral and spiritual gro groath th of mankind In Christendom The Tho IOUP differs from that of at most gothic church sculptures In InclusIon of ot statesmen and a poet The Tho first century Is represented y St Paul the second by St St Justin the martyr the third by St Clem Clem- Clement Clement Clement ent of Alexandria who was the first to bring all the culture of the Greeks and the speculations of at the Christian heretics to bear upon the of the tho now faith Others are St St Augustine of 01 Hippo St Benedict of Nursia the tho father of the Western Monks Monka St Gregory the Great Charles Mortel Charlemagne Alfred Altred the Great Godfrey de St Pt Bernard H Francis John Columbus Archbishop Cranmer William Shakespeare George Washington and Abraham Lincoln The statues form torm part of ofa ofa ofa a parapet place ploce at nt the tho entrance to the choir of the tho cathedral and are aro carved of ot stone by reto Feto Ferrari an Italian sculptor who hIS has lived d for tor many tears leers ears In the United States The parapet itself was designed by bythe bythe bythe the architects Cram Crain and F Ferguson and I Is of late Gothic style