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LeConte Stewart (Utah, 1891-1990) is one of the most recognizable and prolific painters of his era. Revered among collectors of Utah art, Stewart is often sought after for his powerful landscapes. But, with a career spanning over 70 years, not...
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No one composes a work like Brad Teare. Although his striking use of color and strong brushwork, of themselves, are enough to pull in even the most casual onlooker, it is Teare’s way of piecing together a painting that makes his...
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These newly found works illuminate a hitherto-unrepresented episode. The artworks date to the summer of 1929, a few months after Young had returned from Europe and after a series of successful shows in the United States. Young was invited to the Twentieth Century Fox Studio to collaborate on the film Seven Faces (1929). Over six weeks in Los Angeles, Young worked by day at the film studio and by night sketching amateur and professional boxers at the famed Main Street Club, where Jack Dempsey, John Silver, Charlie Chaplin, Rudolph Valentino, Henry Huntington, and Douglas Fairbanks met to socialize and spar. These scenes capture Young’s enormous arsenal at the height of his career.
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"There is probably no community on this continent, of our numbers, which has as many skilled artisans as are to be found here." — George Q. Cannon, Salt Lake City, Oct. 8, 1875. At first glance, it appears to be...
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To fully understand the weight of the work Préparation pour dîner by JT Harwood (American, 1860-1940), you first need to step back a few years when a group of artists persuaded leaders of the LDS Church to send them to Paris. As...
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