Utah Representational Art History
Resource Library articles and essays:
Contemplating the Extraordinary in Nature: Artists and Aesthetic Conservation by Peter H. Hassrick
New Book: Utah Painting and Sculpture (1997)
Rocky Mountain and Southwest Painting and Sculpture: 19th-21st Century
Museums and other non-profit sources of Resource Library articles and essays:
Brigham Young University Museum of Art
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art
Utah Museum of Fine Arts at University of Utah
Other online sources:
Painting and Sculpture in Utah by Robert S. Olpin
Utah Artists Project of the University of Utah Marriott Library offers biographies of histroic Utah artists. Links to individual biographies may be found in America's Distinguished Artists. The Deseret News says in a July 1, 2005 article "The core list of approximately 300 artists was compiled from lists generated by the Springville Museum of Art, the Bountiful/Davis Art Center, Robert Olpin's telecourse, "Art Life of Utah," and the Salt Lake County Fine Arts Program."
List of Utah artists, from Wikipedia
TFAO's
Distinguished
Artists catalogue provides online
access to biographical information for artists associated with this state.
Also, Search Resource Library for online articles and
essays concerning both individual artists associated with this state's history
and the history of art centers and museums in this state. Resource Library
articles and essays devoted to individual artists and institutions are not
listed on this page.
Books:
A Century of Sanctuary: The Art of Zion National Park, by Robert Redford (Foreword), Lyman Hafen (Contributor), Peter
H Hassrick (Contributor), 
Deborah
Reeder (Contributor), Leslie Courtright (Contributor), Roland Lee (Contributor),
Erica Cottam (Contributor). Zion Natural History Association; 1st Edition
edition (January 1, 2008). ISBN-10: 0915630486. 13: 978-0915630486. (right:
book front cover courtesy of Amazon.com)
Painters Of The Wasatch Mountains, Robert S. Olpin, Ann W. Orton, Thomas F. Rugh (Gibbs Smith, 2005)
(Google Books Limited
Preview) Product Description: "A distinct painting development
with regard to the American West's Wasatch Range emerged in the nineteenth
century and persists even today. These "painters of the Wasatch"
have set many precedents through their artistic interpretations of this
mountain subject matter. Painters of the Wasatch Mountains presents for
the first time a survey of the gamut of painters who formed and have carried
forward an expression of nature's mighty gift to both visitors and residents
of Utah." (text courtesy of Amazon.com) (left: book front cover
courtesy of Google Books)
Utah Art, Utah Artists: 150 Years Survey, By Vern G. Swanson, Robert S. Olpin, Springville Museum of Art,
Donna L. Poulton, Janie 
L. Rogers.
Published by Gibbs Smith, 2002. ISBN 158685111X, 9781586851118. 192 pages.
Google Books says: "...Selected works and biographical material on
the artists are presented chronologically... Vern G. Swanson, Ph.D., has
been the director of the Springville Museum of Art since 1980... Robert
S. Olpin, Ph.D., a University of Utah Professor of Art History, has become
a familiar face on his eighteen-part television course on the Art Life in
Utah series....Donna L. Poulton, Ph.D., is the Assistant Curator of Exhibitions
at the Springville Museum if Art. For the past three years she has been
documenting and chronicling, on film, the lives and works of Utah artists.
Janie L. Rogers, M.A., wrote her master's thesis on Utah architecture. Rogers
is a founding member of the Associated Art Historians, Inc., Salt Lake City."
(Google Books Limited
Preview available) (right: book front cover courtesy of Google
Books)
Artists of Utah, Olpin Robert S, Seifrit William C, Swanson Vern G. 297 pages. Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers; 1st edition (September 1999). ISBN-10: 0879059052. ISBN-13: 978-0879059057
Utah Painting and Sculpture, By Vern G. Swanson, Robert S. Olpin, William C. Seifrit, William
Gerdts. Contributor Vern G. Swanson, Robert S. Olpin, William C. Seifrit,
William Gerdts. Published by Gibbs Smith, 1997. ISBN 087905817X, 9780879058173.
320 pages. Google Books says: "...156 Color Plates 63 Black & White
Photographs With Magnificence and Vivid Imagery, This Stunning Revision
of Utah Art Traces Utah's Artist and Their Creations From The First European
Settlements In 1847 Through The Current Generation. In The 1800's Talented
Young Men and Women Were Sent East and To Paris By The Lds Chruch To Study
and Bring The Ideas of The Mainstream Art World Back To Utah. The Results
Were Fascinating. Today Utah's Visual Artists Magnify This Tradition."
(Google Books Limited
Preview) (left: book front cover courtesy of Google Books)
Utah Art from the Permanent Collection: An Exhibition Honoring the Utah Statehood Centennial, 1896-1996., By Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Published by Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 1996. Google Books says: "Catalog of an exhibition held at the Val A. Browning Gallery, July 7-August 18, 1996"
Utah: State of the Arts, Trudy McMurrin, ed. (Meridian International, Inc., 1993)
Utah Art: The Springville Museum Collection, By Vern G. Swanson, Robert S. Olpin, William C. Seifrit, Springville Museum of Art. Contributor Vern G. Swanson, Robert S. Olpin, William S Gerdts. Published by Peregrine Smith Books, 1991. ISBN 0879053852, 9780879053857. 252 pages
Harvesting the Light: The Paris Art Mission and Beginnings of Utah Impressionism, By Linda Jones Gibbs, Museum of Church History and Art (Salt Lake City, Utah), Utah Museum of Church History and Art (Salt Lake City. Published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1987. 107 pages. Google Books says: "An exhibition at the Museum of Church History and Art, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."
Image of the Artist: Self-portraits and Portraits of Utah Artists: an Exhibition at the Springville Museum of Art 6 November 1986-4 January 1987., By Springville Museum of Art. Published by Springville Museum of Art, 1986
Masterworks: From the Collection of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, By Linda Mary Jones Gibbs, Utah Museum of Church History and Art (Salt Lake City, UT) Published by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1984. 79 pages. Google Books says: "An exhibition at the Museum of Church History and Art, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."
Women Artists of Utah, By Utah Arts Council, Springville Museum of Art, Springville Museum of Art. Published by Springville Museum of Art, 1984. 80 pages. Google Books says: "[Exhibition held at] Springville Museum of Art, November 3-December 17, 1984."
Collectors of Early Utah Art, By Utah Arts Council, Springville Museum of Art. Published by Paragon Press, 1983. Google Books says: "Catalog of an exhibit held at Springville Museum of Art, October 5-30, 1983."
Dictionary of Utah Art, By Robert S. Olpin. Published by Salt Lake Art Center in cooperation with the Utah American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, 1980. 311 pages
Permanent Collection Catalog, Springville Museum of Art. Springville, Utah: Springville Museum of Art, 1972
Pioneers of Utah Art by Kaysville Art Club, by Elsie S.; Rampton, Alice B.; Sanders, Clover B. Heaton. Publisher: Educational Printing Service (1968).
100 Years of Utah Painting: Selected Works from the 1840s to the 1940s. Haseltine, James L. Salt Lake City, UT: Salt Lake Art Center, 1965.
DEVOTEES AND THEIR SHRINES: A Handbook of Utah Art, by Ruth Sutton. 160 pages. Publisher: The Deseret News; 1st edition (1914). ASIN: B001073Q4O
Articles:
Deborah Reeder & Leslie Courtwight: "The Art of Zion National Park" American Art Review, July-August 2008 (Volume XX, Number 4)
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