In the late seventies Professor A. C. Smyth, teacher of music in the Salt Lake City schools, produced several of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. Perhaps the most famous quartet that was ever assembled in the state, was the Boshard and Pyne Brothers quartet, of Provo. It brought together four voices that blended and made an unusually well-balanced quartet that remained together for forty years.
The state has produced a commendable number of painters, many of whom were compelled, in pioneer days, to combine with their art the practical affairs of life. Notable among them was the pioneer painter, George M. Ottinger, who was at one time chief of the fire department of Salt Lake City. He painted, in addition to home paintings, scenery and a curtain for the Salt Lake Theatre. W. C. Morris, who did much of the decorating and scene painting for the Salt Lake Theatre, was a practical decorator; while among the first of our pioneer landscape painters were J. B. Fairbanks and John Hafen, who represent a class who were compelled to farm and who could paint only at odd moments.
The outstanding sculptor of the state, Cyrus E. Dallin of Springville, had his career shaped largely by his pioneer environment. He is noted for his Indian pieces, such as "The Medicine Man," "The Appeal to the Great Spirit," "Massasoit," and "The Scout." We have his own word for it that he became interested in the Indians through seeing them in his native town. He says he saw them in their colorful blankets and knew they possessed an art that the white man in his impoverished pioneer surroundings, did not possess. Mr. Dallin says that as he studied the red man in his councils with the whites, making treaties of peace, he beheld in him a majesty of soul that he has devoted his life to portraying and perpetuating through the sculptor's art.
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ADAMS, Corinne Damen (Mrs. W. F.), born in Utah, November 21, 1875, daughter of William Cutler and Amelia Christina Bailey Damon. Married to William Frederick Adams. Children: Muriel (deceased), Damon Richard (deceased). Artist. Graduate, A. B., College of Pacific. Member of State Art Commission. Former president, Utah Federation of Woman's Clubs; for 4 years president Salt Lake City Federation of Women's Clubs. For five years chairman of City Americanization work (women's). Member: Ladies Literary Club (former president), Saturday Night Club. Home: 239E South Temple St., Salt Lake City, Utah.
ALLEN, Inez Knight (Mrs. R. E.), born September 8, 1876, in Payson, Utah, daughter of Jesse and Amanda McEwan Knight, a resident of her native state for about forty years. Married to Robert Eugene Allen. Children: W. Eugene J. Knight, Mark Knight, Robert Knight, Joseph Knight. Active in civic and church work. Served one of the first two women who were sent as missionaries to England by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints: was delegated to International Council of Women in London, 1899;
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