| Show Utah Ex-Utah Deputy D Now Painting In France Painting War Var Memorial For Oklahoma Capitol Build Build- Building Also ing-Also ing Also Painted Murals of Utah State Capitol Served Building Served the War and During Appreciates Appreciates Appreciates ates Sentiments of Mothers and Heroes B By 13 JESSIE The New cw Yorker Abroad Special Dispatch to lo The Standard Examiner Copyright 1326 1926 by Consolidated Fress Association PARIS May Theres There's 29 Theres There's a big high studio In the Rue flue Jadin not far froni where the Is all alt a flutter these days dos sith Ith golden pansies which contains at atthe atthe the moment one of oC the busiest ln Americans in Europe and a 0 digging In on one of or the biggest st mural paintings in the world The man is ii Gilbert White the th American artist artist and and anel the gigantic murals are those which two years ears hence will be put up In the tho new ne capitol building at Oklahoma City AmerIca has bas already shown It itself lf appreciative of oC Whites White's work and aniso so has France The Tho magnificent murals In the New Haven county court house housa are arc his as are those In the capitol e buildings ot of Utah Kentucky and Montana and In the federal building at Gadsden Ala France has purchased his picture of the tho Seine at nt Lu Les L s Andelys to t thang hang In the Luxembourg and has hamade made him an officer of or the French academy He also Is a chevalier ot or othe orthe the anda French Legion glon of oC o Honor and ond an ana a a reserve captain of or U S 3 try IN SAT SALT LAKE LlE Yes Tes White admitted and IX cx- sheriff of Salt Lake City He spoke from a 8 a corner of oC his where clad In a a vl vast va et t paint paint- spattered be b smock he Is la six f feet i tall he tall he was glorifying a bit of canvas canvas with marvelous violets violeta and ond blues the he deputy It ap- ap appeared appeared was one phase of OC Whites White's attempt to get Into the war His HI first Idea of becoming an aviator was was promptly squelched by army officers because of his ht age He tried equally unsuccessfully to set get Into into the intelligence division So then White reminisced I accepted the post of deputy sheriff i and ond took a lot of ot rabbit guns away awa from aliens Well Yell anyway he finally got ot Into the war to such good purpose that I General Pershing cited him for ex- ex exceptional I exI and meritorious service Inthe lithe There were five White brothers In the war among them Stewart Ed- Ed Ed Edward ward White the big big- game hunter and author And knowing the war wor from the outside in as well as from Inside out there thero coul could hardly be an artist better belter fitted than Gilbert White While to paint thE memorial to the war ar dead which the capital murals In the Oklahoma capi- capi tal will constitute My iy Iy Idea Is to make the mur mur- mur- mur als ais murals a ft trIbute trl 1 A not K l J- J JJ J M only to lu the men who died White explained but also to the tho mothers who gave them to their country There are two things which wilt live always In the heart of oC any one anyone who really saw the actual war warzone zones zone One Is 1 the nobility of o mothers the heIghts of oC ee to which they beyond attained attained beyond words to pral praise e And the other Is the th spirit of oC the tho o men on their way to waito the battle bottle fields WANTS VATS PEACE CF Im a 8 map mall of oC peace I hate war l who doesn't But say gay what whal you OU 1 will 11 against war ar it has thIs In common with l Ith other frightful calamities It brings out In the average woman every day mIll man and worn worn- an an unsuspected heroism and nobility before bHore which the worl world stands In awe Before Defore which even CVen cynicism Is silent vision It Is la with this reverence of o vis Is Ion that the Oklahoma murals murols ore are being painted In more than thon mere size they bid fair fall to b be the big gest doneso work Gilbert White has done so far When It It Is li done this biggest mural will be placed at nt the head of the sweeping staircase which Is the pride of OC the tho Oklahoma capi capi- capi tal teL capiteL Its lt Jl setting getting will 11 be marble gold and the soft sott gray caen stone an Ideal setting both for tor th the dig of or the subject and the glow glow- Ing glowIng color In which It will be con Forty five feet Ceet by 25 35 It feet feet takes tho the brush of n it genius who ho Is also a giant for tor such a canvas Bu But that's the kind of o brush White wields |
