The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-12-04
OGDEN is To SEE
GREAT PAINTING

I'm the Shadow of the Cross" the
miracle" painting which has caused
worldwide comment. will be eXmOh-
ed in Ogden, the week al January ),
Tor the benefit of the Florence Crit
tenton home. Herbert Barring of Gin
Cincinnati having arrived in Ogden
yesterday 10 take charge Of the eN-
nibition. which should prove one oil
the biggest charitable and art fea
lures of the season. The wonderful
picture always has been exhibited for
charity and has helped many an in
sfitution in this country.
n. Barring of Cincinnati. whom the
many Ogden visitors at the Seattle cX
position VIII remember as the lecturer
who so fascinatingly told OF tho won
derful miracle painting. In the
Shadow of the Cross" which was the
center of art interest at the great
fair arrived In the city yesterday to
make arrangements for the exhibition
of the marvellous painting In this city
the week prior TO Christmas. The pic
ture. which Is now owned by DR.. w l..
Wright. millionaire and philanthropist
of Washington, d. c., is always eX-
hibited for the benefit of some worthy
lege to offer it for the benefit OF some
local charity In Ogden 1t Is being cX-
hiDited at Walla Walla this week un-
der the auspices OF Whitman college,
and the week before was shown In
Spokane
In talking OF the painting Mr. Barring
said THE painting. In the Shadow
OF the Cross is the work OF Mr.. Ali.
a young artirt who was only 2G years
old when It was painted. at Spring
field, Mass. in 1896, after recent
tour Of the Holy Land where the
artist became so imbued with the spir-
itual significance of the country that
he determined TO devote the rest of
his life TO the painting of religious
subjects. One of his pictures, his Ma
| donna and child. was purchased for
the Tate collection of London.
Picture Radlstes.
Soon after this Mr. Ahl decided TO
| paint the Christ as He appeared 10
| him, the figure was painted and the
| background still unfinished when the
| artist entered his studio in Springfield
one evening and discovered that the
picture radiated a wonderful light.
which not only brought out the figure
of the Christ. but which showed. ap-
parently resting on his shoulders,
shadowy cross which was not visible
in the picture in the daylight The
radiance emanating from this picture
was of the soft brilliancy of moonlight
and the cross appearing I'm the back.
| ground was most startling"
1t is the theory among many psy-
| biologists that Mr.. Ahl, having been
taught in early years and being i'm
bued with religious beliefs of the
| Christ man, had. through his sub
conscious mind, formed the cross with
out any idea of conveying the wonder
| full impression that it makes upon
| those who view the Christ man with
| his rather STOPPING shoulders. From
the chemical side the picture Is point
| ing the way TO the dream of every
chemiSt--a light without heat, for it
casts a glow distance OF u feet ,
inches from its surface. which Is flyo
times stronger than any other lumi-
mostly known, and is without heat,
odor or vapor; the pigment has no
more taste than sand which in itself
differs from all known chemical laws.
as all luminous substances quickly
oxidize in contact with air and have
heat odor and yapor.