Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-03-15
.B0ST0N6 BEAUTY SHOW FAIR
WOMEN OF FOUR CENTURIES
TTHAT a nations status may be

S~Y-7HAT q nations status may b,
pretty accurately gauged b!
the relative number Of lts beau
tlful women and their accom-
nushments as well az by the bought,
dseds OF It's warriors has long been &C
conted as truism. The higher The
,ype of each class the more advanced
tbe country that produced them.
Fair women and brave men, with th'
heroic events Of history, have engross
cd the attention OF artists from the
earliest times In which sculpture anc
painllng we're praetlced. Ia comparl.
son with other countries, America In
tba past has suffered not from a deorth
of fair women but from u lack Of art
lsts TO portray them, painting In oils
having come into vogue only during the
century in which this country was dis
covered. IL was not until well into the
eighteenth century, In fact, that our
country produced artists Of emlnence,
Ike Copley, West. Alston, Trumbull,
stuart and the three Peales, all Of
whom, with the exception Of West, con.
vowed TO canvas the beautiful faces Of
many Of their fair contemporaries, 1t
IL TO them and particularly to Copley,
Stuart and Allston, that we are In
debted for these gllmpses Of the beau.
tles Of past generations,
There has been during the past hun
dred years q great increase In the mum.
her OF American artists who have won
worldwide recognition, and while Eu-
rome enjoys the distinction Of having
the Oldest art schools and the best ex-
amples of the old masters, there can he
no two opinions as to Americas supe-
riority as the country of inspiring
themes for the artist In the grandeur Of
its scenery, It's stirring history and
notably in It's multitude of beautiful
women
Since the times Of Michael Angelo pa
Vlncl and Titan the worlds art center
has shifted successfully from the Ital.
ian cities 10 Paris and London, some
artists, az Abbey and Sargent, decar.
Ing preference for the last named city
IN which to work II not 10 study; but
in view Of the preponderance Of Amer
lean art and artists in recent years and
the perfection Of an atmosphere or art
environment suited to the creation Of
great works, the opinion is growing
that not many years viii elapse before
the art center viii be transferred to the
western hemisphere
The most recent as well as one Of the
most interesting exhibitions In which |
Americana Is particularly prominent
is that Of the Copley society which Is
now open In Boston, II Is called an
exhibition Of fair women and has in |
consequence a special interest and even
fascination that attach to very few
art exhibits Considered merely as an
art show, the fair women" immedi-
ately assumes Importance as in many
respects the most remarkable loan coll
lection 10 which the public has had ac-
cess.
It might with proprlety be called "a
century OF American beauties" al
though there are in this collection Of
more than a hundred Of the fairest Of
the fair sex several types from abroad.
It would be practically impossible to
bring together the portraits of even 100
Of the typical beauties of four centu-
rIes, as IL done here, without stirring
many delightful memories and revlving
almost nnumerable charming stories,
but when many Of the portraits are, as