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Show Donald Beauregard By B. F. LARSENl and ETHEL STRAUSER2 Donald Beauregard is the son of N. J. Beauregard of Fi11more, Utah, (He died May 2, 1914 at the home of his parents in Fillmore, Utah.) Be was graduated from the University of Utah in 1906, not only showing and was born in 1885. himself bri11iant in his studies, but talented with the brush. In October, 1906, he went to Paris, where he studied art under Jean Paul Laurens, remaining in Europe two years. During the years 1909 and 1910 he was director of art in the public schools of Ogden, Utah. A new trend was given to his activities in the summer of 1909 and 1910, which he spent with the archeological expedition of the University of Utah, and the school of American Archeology in Arizona and New Mexico. There he met Mr. Frank Springer. who was so impressed with the genius of Mr. Beauregard that he thence-forth took a personal interest in him and assisted him with his art studies in Spain, France, and Bavaria for two years. While in France. in 1912. he fe11 ill. From that time on he worked feverishly to prepare himself for the commission that had been him by Mr. Springer. given He returned to this country in the fall of 1913. His commission was to make a set of mural canvases for the 1915 Cali fornia exposition at San Diego. embellish the auditorium of the New The murals were to i11ustrate allegori cally the development of the white races on the American Continent, taking St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of the Southwest,-his life, traditions and of that conquest great region, as the themes for this series of pictures. Having studied under masters in Paris, in Munich, in Spain, having won he high honors. visted Assisi and the places which knew St. Francis. He steeped himself in the spirit of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, read the works of St. Francis and the biographies of the saint, then set to work to make preliminary sketches for the six panels now placed in the auditorium of the Santa Fe Museum. The first sketches were made in Europe and brought to Santa Fe. where in his studio they were worked over and over again. "The Conversion of St. Francis" was the most difficult to compose. This one he almost finished. but it could not be used because of a change in the niche in which it was to be placed. It is the most austere. the simplest of them all. Death overtook the artist just as he had actually begun work on the great panels. Mexico building of this to exposition. "Reverently, lovingly, unselfishly, with faithful adherence to the sketches, Carlos Vierra and Kenneth M. Chapman of the Art staff original of the School of American Research took up the work where Beauregard had been It was carried out as far as of possible in the compelled to leave it. spirit Beauregard." The other panels are: (2) "The Renunciation of Santa (3) "Columbus at La Rabida," (4) "Preaching to Mayas and Aztecs," Clara," (5) "Build mg the Missions of New Mexico." Some of his other works were outstanding: "Over the Mesa," a sincere rendition of the desert, was exhibited at the Utah Art Institute, and brought 1 2 Head of Art Department, Brigham Young Ricks College, Rexburg, Idaho. 7 University, Provo, Utah. |
