Edwin Evans (February 2, 1860, Lehi, Utah - March 3, 1946, Los Angeles) [1] was an American landscape painter and teacher. In 1890, he was one of a group of painters who studied in Paris under the sponsorship of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), in preparation for painting murals at the nearly completed Salt Lake Temple.
His father was Bishop David Evans (1804-1883), founder of the city where he was born, which was originally called "Evansville". From an early age, he drew sketches as a hobby, but didn't consider becoming an artist. While he was employed as a railway telegraph operator, his work was noticed by Alonzo Hyde (1848-1910), the son of Orson Hyde, an early LDS Church leader. [1] He encouraged Evans to begin studying art and offered to provide support. Soon after, in the 1880s, Evans and his wife went to Salt Lake City, where he studied with George M. Ottinger and Dan Weggeland.
In 1888, he received further support from Hyde to go to Paris. Two years later, together with John Fairbanks, John Hafen and Lorus Pratt, he was awarded a two-year scholarship to study at the Académie Julian in Paris, where their primary instructor was Albert Rigolot, and they became known as the "French Art Missionaries". Upon their return, they executed the murals and frescoes for the Salt Lake Temple, which was consecrated in 1893. He also created murals for the Cardston Alberta Temple and the Veterans' Hospital in Salt Lake City. [2]
Later that year, with Hafen and James Taylor Harwood, he founded an "Academy of Art" in Salt Lake City. His canvas "Grain Fields" (or "Wheat Field"), painted while he was in France, won Honorable Mention at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In 1898, he was appointed President of the "Institute of Fine Arts" at the University of Utah and taught there until 1919. His best-known student was LeConte Stewart. He also gave lessons at his private studios, church schools and the YMCA. [2]
During his later years, he returned to Paris for several exhibits, concentrated largely on watercolors and donated many of his paintings to Brigham Young University and Lehi High School. A major retrospective of his work was held in 1941.
Mahonri Mackintosh Young was an American social-realist sculptor and artist. During his lengthy career, he created more than 320 sculptures, 590 oil paintings, 5,500 watercolors, 2,600 prints, and thousands of drawings. However, he is primarily recognized for his sculpture. His work includes landscapes, portraits, busts, life-size sculptures, monuments, and engravings. Regardless of his medium of choice, his work is characterized by spontaneity; he often preferred to prepare his work with quick sketches on the scene. He felt this made his work more natural as compared to using a model in the studio. He was fairly commercially successful during his life, though he did not find success until his mid-30s. Large commissions for sculptures from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were particularly lucrative for him.
Cyrus Edwin Dallin was an American sculptor best known for his depictions of Native Americans. He created more than 260 works, including the Equestrian Statue of Paul Revere in Boston; the Angel Moroni atop Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City; and Appeal to the Great Spirit (1908), at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He was also an accomplished painter and an Olympic archer.
Lee Greene Richards was a famous Utah portrait artist. Many of his works can be found at the City and County Building in Salt Lake City, Utah.
LeConte Stewart was a Latter-day Saint artist primarily known for his landscapes of rural Utah. His media included oils, watercolors, pastel and charcoal, as well as etchings, linocuts, and lithographs. His home/studio in Kaysville, Utah is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Bruce Clark Hafen is an American attorney, academic and religious leader. He has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 1996.
Danquart Anthon Weggeland, known as Dan was an artist and teacher in the early Utah Territory. He was sometimes referred to as the "Father of Utah Art".
Avard Tennyson Fairbanks was a 20th-century American sculptor. Over his eighty-year career, he sculpted over 100 public monuments and hundreds of artworks. Fairbanks is known for his religious-themed commissions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints including the Three Witnesses, Tragedy of Winter Quarters, and several Angel Moroni sculptures on spires of the church's temples. Additionally, Fairbanks sculpted over a dozen Abraham Lincoln-themed sculptures and busts among which the most well-known reside in the U.S. Supreme Court Building and Ford's Theatre Museum.
Lorus Bishop Pratt was an American landscape painter and missionary. In 1890, he was one of a group of painters who studied in Paris under the sponsorship of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in preparation for painting murals at the nearly completed Salt Lake Temple.
John B Fairbanks was an American landscape painter. In 1890, he was one of a group of artists who studied in Paris under the sponsorship of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in preparation for painting murals at the nearly completed Salt Lake Temple. He painted murals in the Salt Lake Temple and the Mesa Arizona Temple that still exist today. Fairbanks was the official photographer for the South American expeditions of Benjamin Cluff. Fairbanks was the first artist to live and paint in Zion National Park. He was an early art instructor at Brigham Young Academy and was one of the founding members of the Utah Art Institute. Fairbanks was the father of artists John Leo Fairbanks, Ortho Lane Fairbanks and Avard Tennyson Fairbanks (sculptor).
John Hafen was a Swiss-born American artist, primarily of landscapes and portraits.
Wulf Erich Barsch von Benedikt is an American Latter-day Saint artist and professor at Brigham Young University (BYU).
George Martin Ottinger was an American public official, artist, educator, actor and photographer, who spent most of his career in Utah.
John Willard "Will" Clawson was an American, Utah-based artist, in the late-19th and early 20th-century.
Torleif Severin Knaphus was a Norwegian-born artist and sculptor in Utah, primarily known for sculptures for and about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Albert Gabriel Rigolot was a French landscape painter.
James Taylor Harwood was an American painter, engraver and art teacher. He was the first artist from Utah to exhibit at the Paris Salon, in 1892.
John Leo Hafen was an American photographer and artist and the first person to bring color photography to Utah. Attending school in Springville, Utah, and Salt Lake City, Hafen experimented with different art forms. He received the Utah Arts Council Award for Best Amateur Work in Photography in 1899. He also won an award at the Art Institute in 1907 and won a Special Merit award from Desert Magazine in 1940. He co-owned the Olsen and Hafen photographic gallery in Provo, Utah, and toured with photographer George Edward Anderson. In 1908, Hafen married Daisy Marie Nelson, who died in childbirth in 1908. One year later, Hafen married Ella Lowry and had five children with her. A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Hafen was excommunicated for his involvement with the West Tintic Branch, whose members were found guilty of practicing "wife sacrifice", a form of wife swapping which they considered to be religiously justified.
Donald Beauregard was an American painter and charcoal drawer. Trained in Utah and France, he painted the landscapes of the American West. He died at age 30.
Frank Magleby was an American painter and educator. He taught Art at Brigham Young University for 35 years, and he designed murals in the Nauvoo Illinois Temple.
Robert S. Olpin was an American art historian. He was a professor of Art History at the University of Utah, and the (co-)author of several books.
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