The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-04-07
FIERCE VOLLEY
FIRED BY ARTISTS
Exhibition Committee of Institute
Attacks Awarding Judges.
HURLS PERSONAL EPIT8ETS
PAINTERS OF REJECTED PIC
TUREs BITTER IN IEBIARES.

The exhibition committee OF The Utah
Art Institute fired a vouey yesterday
az the committee on awards, and there
by reopened the controversy over the
merits of the pictures painted by mem
bers nl the exhibition committee and
accepted by them while other pictures
were rejected. The exhibition commit
tee hurts various epithets al the heads
OF the committee ON awards and de-
uouuces them bitterly because they rec
fused Co award a prize to amy of the
pictures accepted by the former.
The attack ls made in the l1rm of "a
report 90 the Society of Utah Artists,
which met last evening. IL is signed by
Miss Mary Teaslel. president of the
Utah Art Institute, Edwin Evans.
chairman OF The exhibition committee;
D. b. Fairbanks and Mrs. Alice Merrill
Horne Mrssrs. Evans and Fairbanks
were the two artists whose pictures teI
under the ban of the awarding judges
a.. M. Ott.uEer S. r.. Whitaker and A..
Ia. Loyey-WhU are violently declared
Co be DO judges of real art. The eyhlb--
ton committee says.
Score the Judges.
"These judges. instead OF awarding
Che 5000 prize and the $50 prize, as re-
quired by law. refused 90 perform their
duty and submitted a report To- the gov
ernins board intended as AN apology
FOR their defiance of the law. The prin-
ciral reason assigned by them for their
illegal and unwarrauted course was
D.. zoo FIf I'd
by the exhibition committee 90 enter in
competition for the $500 prize and the
$50 prize was worth the prize offered.
we deem this action OF the awarding
Judges unfair and Illegal 10 is "a gross
Insult tO the exhibition committee aud
great injustice TO the competing
artists That The pictures entered 10Y
the prize are each worth the amount of
The prize there can be- no question. TO
artists and those who know the worth
of paintings. this VIII be clear. 90 per-
sons who are uaacquaiuteI with art
and the worth of paintings. iu which
class the judges above referred 90 be-
Icing, m-ritoriOus productions have bu-
little value
10 Is rtcitet that the artists condemn
this action. and that they are i'm har-
|, mony.
Judges Not Artists.
This statement needs but one quail
dcauon" the committee continues.
There is one person in the state whose
purpose seems 90 Doe t0 create discOrd
among the artists of Utah. The artists,
however, do object 90 the action of the
governing board in selecting as award
ing judges persons who are not artists
and are not qualified Co perform the
cuues required Boo their position
The action of the judges is declared
unprecedented, and done boo can ar
yus3ut ana insulting way" An opinion
from Attorney General Breeder iS sub
mIttrl. with testimonials from Lorus
Pratt. o.. w. Browning and John Hafen.
The two last names had water ~0lors
rejected by the judges Mr. Hafen
thinks they ought 90 De mobbed out of
town"
THESE same awarding judges further
attempt Co Justify their course" the
committee goes on To- say. by alleging
that no pictures have been accepted
except those painted by said exhibition
committee. while others of equal or
greater melit not painted by member
of the committee have been rejected.
This statement is $50 unfair, untruthfuI
and misleading that a reference 90 the
same ls desirable"
Iu reply. 10 declared that Messrs
ualou and Browning submitted water
r0Iar7. and DO is o. chase Islander tu say
they were NOT worth the money. 10 is
admitted that two 0l the members of
The exhibition committee had paintings
entered. but Sc is declared that "ths
committee fairly and c1usrleuti0us'y
considered The merits of the paintings
submitted" 500 accepting these and re-
lectug another.
The Society of Artists ,ieetad the fol-
lowing officers President Edwin Ev-
aus- vice president. John Hafcu- seC-
rotary. Lous Pratt, treasurer and cus-
tUIiau. j. b. Fairbanks.