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Book Release May 2009
Painters of Utah's Canyons and Deserts
By authors: Donna L Poulton, Vern G. Swanson
Edition: illustrated
Published by Gibbs Smith, 2009
ISBN 142360184X, 9781423601845
304 pages
$75.00
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PAINTERS OF UTAH'S CANYONS AND DESERTS
VIVIDLY ILLUSTRATED AND EXHAUSTIVELY RESEARCHED by Donna Poulton and
Vern G. Swanson
 Book Review: Released
to coincide with the centennial celebration of Zion National Park, "Painters
of Utah's Canyons and Deserts" traces the artistic history and
visual drama of the wild places in Utah's landscape. Lavishly illustrated
with the paintings of prominent living and deceased artists, this book
will strike a responsive chord with anyone whose heart is tied to the
broiling blue skies and red rock mesas of Utah's canyon country. Well-respected
authors and art historians Donna Poulton and Vern Swanson have combined
their substantial knowledge and expertise to create a book of both historic
and visual significance. This richly illustrated art book contains a
history of artists past and present who portray Utah's landscape with
paint and canvas, including artists from the past such as: Frederick
S. Dellenbaugh, Samuel Coleman, Thomas Moran, Minerva B. K. Teichert,
Maynard Dixon, LeConte Stewart, J. Roman Andrus, plus many of today's
landscape luminaries including Valoy Eaton, Kathryn Stats, Ed Mell,
Clyde Aspevig, G. Russell Case, Roland Lee and others.
Donna L. Poulton
is Associate Curator of Utah and Western Art at the University of Utah's
Museum of Fine Arts. She has written articles on Utah and Western art,
and is the coauthor of Utah Art, Utah Artists. She lives in Salt Lake
City.
Vern G. Swanson has been the director of the Springville, Utah, Museum
of Art since 1980. He has published fourteen art history books as sole
or joint author, five of these on Utah art, a major tome titled Dynasty
of the Holy Grail, and Soviet Impressionist Painting. He lives in Springville,
Utah.
Utah artist Roland
Lee has been painting the canyons and deserts of southern Utah's redrock
country for over 30 years. His work is in over 1000 museum, corporate,
and private collections including the Springville Museum of Art and
Zion Naitonal Park. Roland Lee's painting "Wild and Free"
is featured in the new book " Painters of Utah's Canyons and Deserts"
by Donna L. Poulton of University of Utah's Museum of Fine Arts and
Vern G. Swanson of the Springville Museum of Art. His work is also featured
in the book, Century of Sanctuary, the Art of Zion National Park,"
produced in celebration of the centennial of Zion National Park.
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