Days of '47 Landscape Art Show

During the Days of '47, or Pioneer Days celebration, the Deseret News puts on a landscape art show for local artist called Colors of the Land. It is displayed at the Museum of Utah Art and History (MUAH), 125 South Main, Salt Lake City. This year, my Desert Moon piece was juried into the show. Many local artists are being exhibited between now and the 24th of July. The MUAH is a beautiful building. They are still restoring the facade on the ouside, but inside you will find a high, arched ceiling, stained glass, and great art work.

The show is well varied, including sketching, oils, watercolors, gouache, serigraph, acrylic, woodcut, pastel, and collage. Few of my favorites included a watercolor by Rebecca Livermore entitled "Timpanogos Autumn," an acrylic piece by Greg Newbold called "New Crop," and the Purchase Award winner by Brad Teare entitled "Rock Moss," done as a woodcut. I was also impressed by a work by Mr. Steve L. Day entitled "Brook." The amount of detail used in every blade of grass, every stone and nearly every drop of water made it look like a photo from a distance. He and his wife said it took hundreds of hours and he does a little at a time. I tried to explored every space with my eyes, but there was so much on the canvas it would have taken weeks. You can view some of these in the Desert News Article from July 2, 2006. Or, you can view them all at the MUAH.