ARTWORK OF THE WEEK
Artwork of the Week: Duet for Single Musician
Mahonri Mackintosh Young, the grandson of President Brigham Young, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1877. Throughout his career, he created more than 320 sculptures
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Artwork of the Week: Duet for Single Musician
Rembrandt Van Rijn, born in 1606, remains one of the most significant artists of the Dutch Golden Age, celebrated for his depictions of the emotional and spiritual states of the human soul.
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Artwork of the Week: Duet for Single Musician
James C. Christensen was a celebrated American artist and illustrator. A BYU alum and former faculty member, he drew inspiration for his whimsical style from fairytales, legends, as well as his Christian beliefs.
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Artwork of the Week: Garden Path with Iris
This vivid sunlit path speaks to the lasting impact the French Impressionist movement had on American artists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
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Artwork of the Week: Open Door at the Governor's Palace
While on a voyage to Honduras in 1908, Carl Oscar Borg stopped in Antigua, Guatemala where he saw the Governor’s Palace. Built in 1550, the Palace was in a state of deterioration.
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Artwork of the Week: Yōrō Waterfall in Mino Province
While Katsushika Hokusai is best known for “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” from his famous series “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji,” an equally stunning series is “Tour of the Waterfalls in Various Provinces” which houses woodblock prints like “Yōrō Waterfall in Mino Province.”
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Artwork of the Week: Kinryūzan Temple in Asakusa
“Kinryūzan Temple in Asakusa” depicts Kinryūzan Sensōji Temple, one of the most famous Buddhist sites in Japan.
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Artwork of the Week: Honeyville Winter
Originally from California, James Blankenship is an artist and professor emeritus in Boise State University’s art department.
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Artwork of the Week: Abraham Lincoln - The President
Over the course of his life, Avard Tennyson Fairbanks created more than 100 monuments and even more artworks.
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Artwork of the Week: The Lovers
Couse was among American artists who formed an artist colony in Taos, New Mexico in the early 20th century. He reveled in the southwest landscape and hoped to create art sensitive to Native peoples of the area.
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Artwork of the Week: Mountains in February
Born in Okayama, Japan in 1885, Chiura Obata moved to San Francisco in 1903. His impactful career included an art professorship at UC Berkeley
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Artwork of the Week: Winter 1982 Calendar of Events
George S. Dibble was an American painter, art critic for the Salt Lake Tribune, and professor at the University of Utah. Born on March 29, 1904, in Oahu, Hawaii, Dibble studied art at the University of Utah before joining the Art Students League of New York.
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Artwork of the Week: Winter Scene
George S. Dibble was an American painter, art critic for the Salt Lake Tribune, and professor at the University of Utah. Born on March 29, 1904, in Oahu, Hawaii, Dibble studied art at the University of Utah before joining the Art Students League of New York.
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Artwork of the Week: Winter Landscape
Joseph Alma Freestone Everett was born in Salt Lake City. He studied art with James Harwood, John Hafen, and Lee Greene Richards at home before pursuing training in Paris and New York City.
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Artwork of the Week: Winter in Taos
Joseph Adam Imhof was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1871. He was hired as a lithographer by Currier and Ives, and by 1891, had earned enough money to pursue a formal art education in Europe.
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Artwork of the Week: House in Winter
Florence Frandsen was born on December 24, 1908, in Moroni, Utah. She attended Brigham Young University, where she studied art under the direction of B.F. Larsen and Calvin Fletcher.
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Artwork of the Week: Shepherd and Sheep in Snow
This watercolor by Dutch artist Francois Pieter Meulen evokes the words of Jesus Christ, “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep” (John 10:11).
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Artwork of the Week: Nativity and Adoration of the Magi
Iconic scenes such as this one were used by worshippers as a window into the spiritual world, allowing them to see and participate in the sacred events that are depicted.
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Artwork of the Week: Student at a Table by Candlelight
Students across university campuses are well acquainted with the feeling of a late-night study session, especially as finals approach.
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Artwork of the Week: Winter Trees
Winter Trees was painted by the watercolorist and educator Edward Maryon who taught art at the University of Utah for over 30 years.
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Artwork of the Week: Fall Games—The Apple Bee
Mahonri Young’s drawing invites the viewer to experience this fall day alongside the farmer plowing the field.
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Artwork of the Week: Fall Flowers
Mahonri Young’s drawing invites the viewer to experience this fall day alongside the farmer plowing the field.
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Artwork of the Week: En Bateau (The Boat Ride)
Mahonri Young’s drawing invites the viewer to experience this fall day alongside the farmer plowing the field.
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Artwork of the Week: Fall Plowing
Mahonri Young’s drawing invites the viewer to experience this fall day alongside the farmer plowing the field.
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Artwork of the Week: Deborah and Ma Cat
Do you feel like we are intruding? This surrealist inspired painting sure doesn’t seem like it wants us to understand what exactly is going on.
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