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Show THREE FINE PAINTINGS. Some magnificent Views of Sho-'shone Sho-'shone Falls from the Brush of Lamboiiruei This morning a Democrat representative representa-tive was invited to view the latest productions pro-ductions of the brush of Mr. Alfred Lambourne, one of Utah's talented artists, consisting of three views of the famous Shoshone Falls of Snake river, painted after sketches taken by Mr. Lambourne Lam-bourne the past summer. The largest painting is 40x60 inches, and the observer is looking directly across" the Falls. Nothing is in view but the roaring, glinting waters and the majestic castellated bluffs, the latter forming a background surpassing in grandeur and effect the mighty Niagara itself. As one studies the picture and the effects of the light and shade, it is apparent that the artist has selected one of those quiet summer days when such a grand and weird work of nature appeals .irresistibly to his soul ; when, indeed, such a feeling comes that he "could paint the rainbow on the sun." The coloring is rich and yet subdued, and throughout the piece there is such a natural and harmonious commingling, that the work may safely be estimated as one of the finest ever produced by a Utah artist. t Another sketch . of the Falls, 30x30 inches, shows them as viewed from below a fall of water 210 feet and it is in this charming view that even the uninitiated un-initiated will recognize a touch of genuine gen-uine artistic skill. No one that has seen this awe-inspiring fall of water, who has listened to its mighty thundering as it chafes against its rocky confines, who has watched the rising spray fromthe tumultuous, tumul-tuous, seething mass below, or who has caught the sunlight through the upper waters before they are hurled into the shadows below, but who will readily acknowledge ac-knowledge the true representation here seen on the canvas. The soft, pearly aspect of falling water has,- been successfully success-fully reproduced, and in every detail the work is true and beautiful. A third picture, by the same artist, is Eagle Rock, viewed .at sunset. This is a fine piece of coloring, showing show-ing the last rays of the sun touching touch-ing the edge of the falling waters, and bringing out a soft and charming impression. Naught but the massive Eagle Rock in the foreground, with a stunted cedar shooting out from its hard, brown sides and the whirling waters at the back, are in sight, but under the refracted, re-fracted, golden rays of lizht, what an entrancing scene it is. The three landscapes reflect great credit and praise upon Mr. Lambourne, and are worthy a visit by all lovers of art. Like a grand composition of one of the old masters mas-ters that it is a symphony of pleasure to listen to, so such paintings harmonize and soothe the faculties, for one in reality looks through Nature up to Nature's God. . . |