Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-15

art properties" traces OF which can
be found in the paintings which stand
about on eases and the walls Mr.
HrawOod teaches half dag at the
High school The other half day he
paints at his home. ana when he was
found there ne was finishing a picture
which promises to be his best thing to
date. 1t Is OF a girl seated at q spin
ming wheel her hand llstlessly idle,
while she Is gazing into the fireplace
and listening to music from plano
being played in the gloom behind her,
there being no Hight but that from the
fire, only the glow of which is shown.
Tho mood on the girls face is the thing
that gives tho picture its character.
and II could well be styled Memoir
les" or An Old~Love Song" The artist
has selected "a Spinning Song es the
title
Mr. Harwood has In his studio the
picture which won him q membership
IN the Society of Western Artists IT
was exhibited at Chicago and Other
cities last year. and was exhibited here
this year for the first time Beside Il
Is the original composition sketch OF
"The Alteration OF the Ages which
won Mr.. Harwood much recognitidn
last year. and reproduction Of which
has appeared IN the news.
The sales department Is one artists
like to hear from Mr.. Harwond sold
to an exhibitor recently eight paintings
They are Gan old Homestead" really
q picture Of the mill I'm Liberty park
but labelled by the purchaser IN this
manner. Woods" a Paris sketch
mountains NJ Sunset Morning on
the Mountaus,"' painting for which
the Wasatch range was model, as 70
has boon for SO many other Of Mr..
Harwood's paintings; "Raspberries IN
a Cabbage Leaf q still life picture Of
strong cOlors aud reality Cows
Coming Home" IN which q Liberty
park path formed the background FOR
the animals and Great Salt Lake. n
sketch along the shore near Black
Rock.
j. b. FAIRBANKS.
]. n. Fairbanks Is the farmer artist.
To him the field whore man labors a.
well as that where nature works out
fanciful designs with stream aud un-
derbrush Is a ready subject His STU
do Is filed with pictures Of harvest
scenes. grain stacks wheat fields. oar
fields and farm houses. but not these
only. for he Is now at work on stream
vistas sketched near Murray and morn
ing mists seen in the valley towards
the Wasatch Mr. Fairbanks takes
naturally 60 outdoors, and entered the
art field from the farm which he says
may account for his interest IN agricul-
tural topics
JOHN HAFEN
lie was found at work in his studio
az suite TO- Hooper Eldredge block
when asked where MIR. Ftafcn was,
who shares the studio With him, Mr.
Fairbanks said be Ind just returned
from Brighton whore he had gone TO
sketch the snow banks. and the trees
In their winter barrennoss Hafen Is
the modest Of the Utah artists. and
the one who gets the most poetry into
his art efforts. His exhibits this year
were l3 I'm number and ~ of them We're
sketches Of scenery or Of still life Whlle
ono was a portrait. Some Of Mr..
Hafcn's friends have urged him TO go
into portrait work exclusively but he
has had too much of love for the
sketching. I'm which ne always catches
nature M ono Of her more intense
moods.
Mr. Fairbanks exhibited rs paintings.
and six were harvest scenes. one OF
them was Of the sunlight on a harvest
field which was much praised. sunset
glows and twilight pictures are taVor-
ties with Mr.. Fairbanks, and he spent
many weeks this summer In the moun-
talns making sketches. which are yet
Ia be finished, and which are scheduled
Ia nu up the coming winter hours.
HARRY CULMER.
Harry Culmer works at home, and
sometimes at his office on cast Firsr
South street. over year ago he cep-
tered his interest, which had already