Show mrs marye mary E adams the salt lake telegram of 0 july in its dally daily salt lake sketches under the heading of 0 owns home in park 1 mrs rs mary E adams plans art gallery of late husbands paintings and continues with the following her home surrounded by the city owned fairmont park mrs mary E I 1 adams of lawn brook 2269 mcclelland street lives in a world in which the paintings of her late husband willis A alj adams form the apex L mr adams pioneer photographer and artist in park city died june 29 1932 1 fl U and since then mrs adams has lived 1 taj l alono alone in her cool bunga low hers Is the only privately owned residence in a city park we bought this place from frank harris years before his 28 acres were sold to the city when city officials came to mo ma I 1 want to leave the homo home in which I 1 had been so happy so I 1 sell mrs adams said smoothing her I 1 white hair with nith her fingers i 1 I am going to enlarge my place too by building an art gallery out here she said moving briskly out of the house bouse across the lawn and narrow creek into a space marked by a formal garden hedge plans art gallery tho the light in the house in so poor and I 1 have hundreds of mr adams sketches and paintings I 1 want to exhibit where they can be appreciated this art now fuls fills the walls valls and corners ot of her home although mrs adams explains that nearly ot of his pictures are scattered in homes throughout utah mrs adams was boin boi n in athens term tenn but came west when sha was a young woman and became a milliner in palk paik city she gave this up upon her in marriage to mr adams a native of indiana in 1888 and became his aid in the photography business happiest when painting my husband was happiest when he had time to paint so I 1 learned to do the printing finishing and other work in the studio to relieve him he said I 1 was pretty good too things were booming in park city then and the adamsey mixed photo glaphy y with dabbling in mining everyone in town was doing something with mining mrs adams said one of mrs adams proudest posses il alons Is a rock from provo canyon which 1 I mr adams split open and painted land scenes on the smooth murfa surface C e as i a birthday gift to his wife during a camping trip on august 3rd ard 20 years ago mrs adams also has other landscape scenes painted on oil flat rocks and strips of tin at times when her husband found himself lacking small canvas of the orthodox type during mountain trips one I 1 oil it study Is on the face of a shovel 1 I 1 used to dabble with water colors a little but I 1 done anything tor for years mrs adams said |