The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-10-12
First Collection EUer
Shown, on Display
Here NolD

HE EG-E-ElEE 20 nave ESaEsT z-ystS
sot ones pictures scattered all over tia
United States. Canada, MEXICO and
Europe That Is the painter, George
Ups record, vino In the t~enty-nin5
years he has been painting. has Jus.
bssn able TO get together enough OF
his roYk to- z pabEsc exhibition which
/ is 10 oe held IN Springfield. Ill. coon
As sorsrunner 10 this exhibition Mr..
Up is exhibiting gone forty or fifty
oil paintings, wcyx done IN the last
three yssrs. fa chis city for few days.
the collection hsing on view oTer
younker'z store al Fifth and Main
streets.
] They say taat a prophet II without
honor II his OWE country. This has
bean stretched 10 cover everything
under the Sun Except 10 a few cl0ss
friends. Nj Upp. Who has been loeat-
1 ed few miles southwest Of Hamilton
for nearly twenty years. is practically
unknown in the section OF the coan-
try he tnhabtts. but IN the east where
his work has been on exhibition for
these many years. the reputation of
this artist IL the highest.
10 Big Figure in East
Il eastern art circles there Is no
name az well known as Ny. Ups
He Is recognized master in his field
But he does not care for the white
light Of publicity: he does not want
10 live before the public: his dispost
ltEon is entirely different When he
first directed his talents toward paint
Ing he travelled widely, painting mos
.Iy portraits. but as soon as he was Ia
the position that IL was not necessary
for him to rely on his brush for
Hiring. he left the world behind and
took up his abode in a far country,
place Just FIVE miles southeast Of the
Curtis monument, where he has lived
his life az he saw fit
He ia not the man to want TO be in
the public eye; rather a quiet place
.out In the green fields where he may
res. and work as he sees fit; where
there are birds and flowers and sun
chime and trees and meadows an
streams TO be put down on canvas, is
his selection.
Mr. Upp paints Just &c he w.shes
and payg no attention TO anybodys
dictrm. and because his individuality
,is distinct In each picture, there nav
always been some one who has ad-
lmtred each and every painting from
his brush to such degree that nearly
two thousand are now scattered from
one end OF the country to the other.
Several hundred are owned in Keokua.
in fact every portrait In the public
library on the east wall. and there IS
| a long line Of them. were painted By
SIR. upp. including the gigantic figure
I'm the center which was placed By
popular subscription in this city for
10
Is Of Old School.
Mr.. Upp ia decidedly of the old
school. None OF the futurist and
cubist art goes with him. He
believes like the old masters that
every detail must be perfect; ev-
cry shade and color must be
shown; every texture, be 1t Of flesh,
flower or fruit, should be accurately
produced, and his collection Of pic
lures on exhibition here attest tie
labor that he has put on them to make
I them perfect.
1 And they are perfect. There arc
pieces in the collection that are equal
to many OF the modern pictures in the
art institute in Chicago and persons
/ who have Travelled extensively have
told Nr. Upp that taking the whole
Icollection as a standard, that there
was no gallery by modern painter
! in Europe to compare with it. Keo-
kuk people who have seldom heard OF
L Mr.. Upp, might reason that this is
merely local admiration, but when Il
is considered that he occupies
definite position In art circles OF the
day, with his pictures In the collec-
lions OF millionaires and famous men
| all over the country. this praise be-
comes significant.
! New and Old Style.
| In the collection on view Mr.. Upp
has an OIL painted Just twenty years
ago. This has been until recently,
In the collection Of William T. Horn
laday. the famous naturalist, and hung
in his New York office for years. And
nnIIDy DDOVEN