Show Athenaeum Meeting l Devoted to Fine Arts the e fault tault of ot all art to seem em antiquated and fades In tho the eyes of succeeding generations Jane Jane Austin Tho first Athenaeum meeting In the new W year was devoted to Fine Arts Mrs Percy Williams gave the well-prepared well Paper and choose for tor her subject Sculpture The Tho art of or preserving able ablo events by means of ot carving cutting or hewing stone or other material Into images How wonderful exclaims Haw Haw- Hawthorne Hawthorne thorne to take a block of marble and convert it wholly Into thought This Is tho miracle of or the sculptors sculptor's art Primi Primi- Primitive Primitive tive man thousands of r years before the Christian era made wonderfully realistic statuettes found in caves in France and Spain Throughout the known history of or the wory wor d people have modeled clay molded metal and carved stone marble Ivory and wood Sculpture began In Egypt and anel Meso Mesa about B. B C C. and anel centered around tho the While Egyptian SCulpture was chiefly religious the Baby and chose worldly themes Women were seldom portrayed and anel their men wore heavy draperies From the art of ot these off far countries camo came Greek sculpture which at first stilt and awkward in the Fourth century reached a height never since surpassed Although Roman sculpture was not the best of ot the Greek art it set itself a task with which Greece was never concerned that of ot portraying the Roman dream of ot world empire With the tho rise of ot Christian Christian- Christianity ity and the fall tall of ot Rome nome sculpture de declined de- de dined In Europe The Gothic style was developed between the and centuries Donatello realist Inventor and genius the true father of ot the Renais Renais- Renaissance Renaissance Renaissance sance art treed freed the body of its formal medieval drapery and produced the first nude in art since classical days Among American sculptors Gutzon Borglum is 15 best known for tor his masterpiece on Mt Rushmore in the Black Hills of South Dakota The Tho bust of ot Abraham Lincoln is said Eaid to be the most beautiful face tace faceIn facein In all America Borglum spent pent years studying the life of ot Lincoln I 1 Well Weli known Utah sculptors are Mahoni M. M Young at present working on This is the Place group for tor the Centennial Professor Protessor Avard Fairbanks Pioneer Head Mrs James Briggs with something new Sculpture In Cotton Hernandez carving busts from redwood railroad ties The work of ot all these sculptors will be on display during Centennial celebration In summing up Mrs Williams called c attention to the marvelous beauties In nature everywhere and the wonder work of Him who marks the sparrow fall tall I Discussion on Golden Jubilee Day pageant banquet dance reunion were suggested Absent members what are your ideas I IMARIE MARIE BARDSLEY Secretary i I |