Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-10-04
FINE ART IN UTAH.
Splendid Display Of the Works Of
Home Artists.
PORTRAITS AND LANDSCAPES.
Tho Collection Large and the
Average Merit
High.

can realize the rspidl'y with which
talent, not 10 say genius, Ia painting,
has been d eyeloped in this Territory.
Ir,.h no. . ,o,o,,s q, .,,i.,s ,.ho a.,
NOT simply amateurs, put are worthy OF
tho name In its highest application.
Nsgfly all tho members OF this
talented ,i,,i. bav. b.,,,na ,,,a., n,
W
arr unuet tue most ulscouthglhg CIR
cumstancea. Not only has poverty
been a great draw back, but they have
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an almost utter lack OF MI oppot-
tunity TO obtain instruction at
or within reasonable distance from.
their homes. nj any prlce. They have
had no teachsra To guide their earliest
efforts. and no piolurs galleries have
been within their reach that would
afford iuspifation 10 suggest or aid In
forming their first concsptions. They
have bean reared among rugged noun.
tains. in n pIonvef community. and
their early llyes have been character.
izod by a derivation OF nearly All the
a ,ncomItanis which arc usually sup.
ppsed 40 make I'M an attnosphofe of. or
create aspiration for. high ART In Iaint.
inu.
Bnt among the natives Of rough, rug.
ged pioneef Utah. aome artists IA ave been
born. who are horn aftista. Their an
10 paint ia pfe.patal. Befofe thoy
knew the frat fulr of ART criticism,
they could teufoduce nature upon can.
vas. and this il genius, But even
penlua faIIa unleas nccompanied by
mari WORK. and an instinet seems 10
have made this great truth known 10
ihe memb,ra M az ooterie OF whom we
are sneaking. and vines, works mr.,
now on rxhI6ition nj m. Fair.
For eramnl.. there A. Lous Pratt.
whosa a,t instinct yay, him no
rrst, excent when he was waking
hard tn Hawaiian A. In tho fare of
adverse oItcumstaneea Of the moat
dis,ouTagInv chnraoter. no MANNED 10
90 10 paris 10 study. Haying AT last
saved the n.nessafy means. he went
Al fIrst hi, drawing was 40 moor that
he was ,et baok. and ordered 40 cory
from tho master oaats nut he wGs
moi Vent long In thi. uositIop. W hen mis-
t.achsr n,ai,ing The ranldity Of his
nrovyss.. nada him draw from living
models. and OF a class Of Ave he was
the fir,t 10 have his work placed on
.xbibItion. III. made n sp.eIalty Of
the human figure. and his anatomical
nIeoes. shown nj the Fair. sneak suf-
nnieniIv in nTaIse of his marvellous
power u reptsduee IN. human figure
and ia anatomy, More realistic, n pos.
nible. than photography itself and Ger.
tsiniy more strlkiug and i'm pressiye, ais
his charcoal drawings Of tbs human
body, He studied undor Benz amin
Constant, Ducet, John IlAurens and
Lebfovre, Instructors In tho Julian
academy Mt Paris, who are counted the
greatest living masters Of drawing aud
painting the human figure. He was
also the first pupil ever taken by Albert
RIgelot, one Of the greatest OF living
Landscape artists, though several Utah
pupils were later under the same In
structor.
There are other young men In Utah,
whose talents are equal anu
whose achievements may DO
greater than his. Several have
mad n career very like his own, and
were In fact, his fellow students, doing
hard work under adverse circumstan-
ces. In this connection may be- men.
toned Edwin Evans, OF Lehi, j. Is.
Fairbanks, OF Payson, J. t. Harwood
formerly OF Lvhi but now OF this city,
aud John Haien, who grew up IN this
city, all OF whom have studied Ia
Paris, and have been examples OF zeal
aud self.saorifioe In the attainment Of
higher and higher excellence In their
work,
Ia such commentary rs II II In
tended here TO make upon the growth
of ART Il Utah, IL would be- improper ~
omit mention Of George OtingcT and
Dan Wegggeland, W hose work inspired
with wonuer aud admiration, II not
with loltier emotions, tho visitors ut
our Fairs held from two 10 three de.
cades ago. These painters ars growing
Old now, but the memories that cling
round their work, much OF which was
done under circumstances that were
well calculated to Annihilate artistic
asplratIons, never will fade from the
minds OF art lovers In this community.
Ons of the fiTst Of Utah young
men 10 win fame at the
easel was IL. L.. a. Culmer, whose
reputation M "a Landscape painter Is
national, and Of J. W. Clawton II ID
moi too much to say that he IL the
father ofpoftrAit painting Ia the school
OF ART which IN fast developing In this
mountain region, and as years pass
appreciation OF his work will increase,
Portraits painted by him may be- placed
ia competition vita the WORK Of
acknowledged masters, ~ .ne ar Voh,
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