The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-31
LITERATURE.

SCENIC UTAH. Pen AND PENCIL By Alfred
Lambourne. New York: j. bewing Publish
ing Company, 1891.
u has been the persistent and consistent
assertion OF THE HERALD that nowhere else
on this great big globe does there appear
grander scenery, as we understand the
term when employed in the artistic sense,
than can be found right here in Utah. Not
only have we asserted this, but have MANY
times demonstrated the absolute truth Of
the declaration by publishing descriptions
Of our awe-inspiring calons, our rugged
and majestic mountains, The charming
wales hidden away here and there, the
dizzy waterfalls and tum bling mountain
streams, and comparing them With the
famed scenes of other places in America
and Europe. But in this matter, as in either
things, Utah has suffered by reason of the
peculiar political and social conditions
which have existed here. Cur own artists
overcome the popular prejudice,
but this was not much They have been
inspired with the beauty and grandeur of
the endless panorama spread out before
them, and have 9ketched and painted from
inherent love of the labor and out OF a
spirit of patriotism; but all to very little
purpose. The works of their pencil and
brush may have been appreciated by the
lovers OF art and the admirers of the strik-
ing and beautiful In nature, but it was
U tah effort, IL was Utah scenery, and that
was sufficient to condemn it. Some of the
famous landscape artists of the world have
brought their sketch books to this territory
ana reproduced on canvas some of those
scenes which inspire US all, and these ar
lists have afterwards confessed that the
simple fact that the paintings were of Utah
su bjects was sufficient to deprive them of
the popularity TO which they were other
wise entitled.
Mr. Alfred Lambourne has unquestion-
ably done mere than any other artist, if not
more than all others combined, to bring to
the attention of the world the magnificent
scenery in which the territory abcupds.
His sketch book has been carried from the
Wilds Of Wyoming ON the northeast over
the mountains, across the valleys, and
through the cenOnS to the Colorado river
and down the rock walled channel of that
wonderful and always inspiring stream.
There are not many scenes of majesty.
grandeur or beauty in all this land, where
nature has done SO much, that he has not
gazed upon and many Of them he has
painted with degree of fidelity and skill
which has placed him in the front rank OF
western artists. His canvases are found
in many houses, and now he has done that
winch we are certain Will accom- pliSh more
than all his other labors to attract atten-
ton to the variety and magniticence OF
Utah scenery. Manifestly the eff
fort has been in "Sceric Utah. u
to give an insight to the varied character OF
what exists in the way of natures dis
plays, for there are examples of mountain,
lake, valley, canon and rustic views, and
the twenty plates have been grouped under
their appropriate headings. Thus the Uin-
tas, the artists paradise, are drawn upon
for illustrations OF our mountain scenery
in its most feroclous-if the term may be
employed-mood. Bald mountain, from
the upper Weber canon and Mount
Agassiz, that most majestic rugged and
| forbidding OF all our peaks, are given and
between them, hidden away among and
watched over by masses of Jagged rocks,
towering to the skies, a group of lakes.
those marvels OF loneliness and loneliness.
! to be found in the Wasatches and the Ulntas
Our Incompatible Great Salt Lake, OF
which no one can ever tire, is illustrated by
views at Black Rock, at White Rock Bay, or
Gunnison Island, that rocky and frowning
point which rises from the water north of
Hat Island, and the pavilion a,
Garfield Beach. The Temples OF
| the Rio Virgin is an example
of the rugged scenery which abounds in
the grid and volcanic region of southern
Utah. Our Wasatch range has been made
to contribute nine views, and every one is
such picture as artists delight to gaze
upon and sketch. There are the Narrows
Ogden canon; ''After Storm in Logan
canon; Lake Mary" at the head of Big