The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-04-20
ART AND ARTISTS
A New and Effective Picture
By Lambourne.
A Purchase-Dallin's Statue
-a Browns Bust. 900 tAa

hnJs constant patronage IN the art
of photograph colorlng, and ranks
among the best in the city for that
kind OF WORK. a.b Ia Pc iJsDtsC h1i
Mrs. NJ. Barrstt has purchased
the charming water color drawing
by Mr.. H.fen which We noticed in
former issue, and has given him a
com mission to paint another work
of a mjIsr nstur-.
Mr.. Fred Lamboufne has of late
been cloaely applying himself to his
art. ard produced several works Of
much worth and striking original
ity. He seems to have struck out
into a path divergent from that be
has Travelled IN the las nj were
it not that everything he sets his
hand to, bears the impress of his
own individuality. it might be said
that his la'est pictures are totally
different rom MS former works.
One of these paintings, Gale 'O4
the Banks of the Santa Cruz" is
Gene near Tucson, Arizona. 1t is
painted with sublime disregard of
prettiness, the aim being t. bling
out q certain scheme Of light
and color and little else. The
artist must have known that he was
challenging criticism, or he might
have gone further and refined upon
some OF the details, notably the
figures. which are mere daubs of
paint introduced to further the
lghG and color p"s Utilities OF the
pic ure. The greater part Of the
work was executed with the palette
knife losde1 with color, and though
the result is certainly lack OF re
finemeDt, he seems to US to have Sc
cured as great degree of force ant
sire myth of which mere paint is
capable. To )jn in the abundant
aEd diver:i fied opinions which this
picture is sure TO evoke, We beg to
wonier whether this same degree
Of power could not be re-
tanned with greater refinement
of lines and deIic cy o. detail. We
bel eve it could There are tender
and beaGtif ii 1Tves in the massive
arm of Hercu'es but not in the
swinging limits of the giant tree
that Mr.. Lamb >Urne has introduced
into the foreground OF this picture.
But we must not forget that the ar
list intended his work as an adven-
ture in light and color, and no more;
and as the effect of liz hi IS fine and
the colOring beau 'jful, ne has sue
ceeded veil to the limit of his al ~.
Another nlcture just comp eted is
the interior Of the ruiut M ssion Of
san Carmel a. Monterey. There ia no
CO.. fljct in our minds as to the meri 5
OF this one. 1t recalls com pletely the
reveren ial awe with which one
treads the cruLablipg pavements Of
this historic ruin. There is poetry
and sadness in the grey cid walls
and decaying arches; in the rank
grasses that oVerspread the altar
steps and the graves Of prizes S who
first ministered he sa"rament of
Christ to wondering race; d 10
the broken choir whence issued the
st ans If re Deunl I0ud0nluS cent
uries ago. low much Of this
ointment is recalled, and how
much created by this painting we
cannot fully decide, nor is it in por:.
ant thai we should, as enough is
certainly there 10 ins,iIl a similar
feeling in the mind OF whoever see-
it. Aside from the seDtim ent of
this work, it is above Mr.. Lam
bourne's average in artistic
meTi'. The sun is sing through
a misty sky behind one
Of the towers, ami Eliminates pOr-
ton OF the anterior which, however,
is mainly in subjued light and is
pleasing chiefly because of the ex-
C llent tone in which II is held. We
hope Mr.. Lambourne will do more
work in this new field as it has the
ring Of success about it.
While Mr.. Dallins model OF a
statue of President Brigham Young
has been on exhibition at Calder's, a
design for bust of the same subject
has been shown in Savage's win
dow. The latter is by MIR. Hsrrie
Brown, of Logan, and represents
his first attempt at portraiture. Al
though we do not know that the
circumstance is other than &C
cidental, the two naturally come
into competition, and on account Of
their familiar knowledge OF the fea-
lures of the original, our citizens
have had a splendid opportunity to
exercise their critical powers. To
say that they so INDUCED while thew
had the chance, is to put it mil1ly.
President Young was never so
picked TO pieces and put together
again in h.s life. Beginning with
the topmost hair of his head and
net st9ppiag until the ba'es of the
pedestals had been considered, frat
one came al:rg and then another,
each one with separate views and
nea ly all wrohg. Yet We wou'd
liz to see q portrait of Brigham
Y IN moulded according to the Ell
act average of all these different
op MO y; az we are quite undecided
VIE her the result would be an im>
proven ut en- either of these
examples or not. While Ell
lentIy trying to form an unbiased
opinion of the bust in Ssvage's
window we hear someone say,
"N3w I jrst think thst would ee
splendid likeness if the under lip