Utah Art Artists

by Swanson, Vern G.

• ISBN13: 9781586851118
• ISBN10: 158685111X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith

Summary

Utah Art, Utah Artists surveys 150 years of the extraordinary talent and achievements of Utah artists. This overview ranges from the sublime paintings of a resourceful ranching woman to the polished work of artists trained in Paris, Rome, and New York. It highlights the rural and the cosmopolitan, the traditional and the modern, the concrete and the transcendent that encompass Utah art.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	6	(1)
Introduction	7	(1)
``Utah Art, Utah Artists: An American Art History''	8	(7)
Robert S. Olpin
Artists from 1804 to 1976	15	(2)
Color Plates from 1850 to 1919	17	(32)
Color Plates from 1919 to 1994	49	(48)
Color Plates from 1995 to 1999	97	(32)
Color Plates from 2000 to 2001	129	(28)
Index	157

Excerpts

Introduction The 2002 Winter Cultural Olympiad and the Springville Museum of Art are please to present an important survey exhibition recording 150 years of Utah art. The exhibition opens on January 15, 2002, and runs until April 30. One of the exhibition's curators, Dr. Robert S. Olpin believes that "the exhibition promises to be the most significant survey of Utah fine are ever mounted." The "blockbuster" survey is arranged chronologically, to best utilize the existing format of the Springville Museum of Art. Such an installation reveals both the stylistic diversity and cohesiveness of each period of art. This arrangement seeks to maximize aesthetic impact, illuminate cultural issues, and outline historical developments. One should leave the exhibition understanding, perhaps for the first time, the magnitude of the Utah school of art.