Background
Olpin, Robert Spencer was born on August 30, 1940 in Palo Alto, California, United States. Son of Ralph Smith and Ethel Lucille (Harman) Olpin.
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10 3/4 X 12 In, 320 Pp, 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.
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"Utah is the coming together of peoples and individuals in a unique vastness that promotes both mystery and the creative impulse. That is, from the tribe or the congregation-community, artists have emerged through time into a tremendous kind of timeless space and beauty in order to do what they have had to do." --Robert S. Olpin
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Utah Art, Utah Artists surveys 150 years of the extraordinary talent and achievements of Utah artists. This overview ranges from the sublime paintings of a resourceful ranching woman to the polished work of artists trained in Paris, Rome, and New York. It highlights the rural and the cosmopolitan, the traditional and the modern, the concrete and the transcendent that encompass Utah art. This sweeping exhibition showcases 300 works of art by 220 artists painstakingly compiled from a list of 10,000 Utah artists. Selection was made in light of five considerations: quality of the work; critical acclaim and professional success of the artist; belated but deserved recognition of the artist; young emerging artists who are the future of art in Utah; and a representative sampling of periods, styles, mediums and geographic regions of the state. One hundred twenty of the artworks are reproduced in rich color, most illustrated for the first time. Selected works and biographical material on the artists are presented chronologically, providing a perspective on Utah art that will make this volume an essential reference for collectors, scholars, and enthusiasts of Utah art. Vern G. Swanson, Ph.D., has been the director of the Springville Museum of Art since 1980. He has written numerous books and articles and he is coauthor with Drs. R. S. Olpin and W. C. Seifrit of Utah Art, Utah Painting and Sculpture, and Utah Arts. 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. He has acted as a consultant to such organizations as the National Gallery and Vose Galleries. 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.
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Olpin, Robert Spencer was born on August 30, 1940 in Palo Alto, California, United States. Son of Ralph Smith and Ethel Lucille (Harman) Olpin.
Bachelor of Science, U. Utah, 1963. Department of Administration and Management, Boston University, 1965, Doctor of Philosophy, 1971. Lecturer art history Boston University, 1965-1967.
Assistant professor of University Utah, Salt Lake City, 1967-1972, associate professor, 1972-1976, professor, 1976, department chairman,1975-1982, director art history program, 1968-1976, 83-84, dean College Fine Arts, 1987-1997.
Consultant curator American and English art Utah Museum Fine Arts, 1973. Grantee U. Utah, 1972, 85, Utah Museum Fine Arts, 1975, Utah Bicentennial Commission, 1975, Ford Foundation, 1975, Utah Endowment for Humanities, 1984, 85, Quinney Foundation, 1986, U. Utah, 1987, State Utah, 1989,Christensen Foundation, 1993, Eccles Foundation, 1994, 95.
District educated, Utah University, 1997. Trustee Pioneer State Theatre Foundation, 1988-1997.
Vice chair Utah Arts Council, 1993-1995, chair, 1995-1998, member, 1998, Utah Science Center.
Lecturer art history Boston University, 1965-1967. Assistant professor University Utah, Salt Lake City, 1967-1972, associate professor, 1972-1976, professor, since 1976. Chairman department University Utah, 1970-1972, 75-82, 99-2000, director art history program, 1968-1976, 83-84, 99—, dean College Fine Arts, 1987-1997.
Consultant curator American and English art Utah Museum Fine Arts, since 1973.
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Human beings are made in the image of God literally and physically, not just morally.
Trustee Pioneer State Theatre Foundation, 1988-1997. Vice chair Utah Arts Council, 1993-1995, chair, 1995-1998, member, since 1998, Utah Science Center Authority, 1995-1997. Vice chair advisory board University Utah Fine Arts, 1996-1997, chair, 1997-1998, member, 1987-1999.
Vice chair Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts and Parks Funding Committee, since 1998. Co-director Utah Fine Arts Institute, since 1998. Board directors Western States Arts Federation, since 2000.
Member Salt Lake organizing committee 2002 Winter Olympic Games, 2000. Member NASULGC (commission on arts 1989-1993), Utah Arts Council, Utah Science Authority, Archives American Art Smithsonian Institution, College Art Association American, Utah Academy of Sciences Arts Letters, Association Historians American Art, International Council Fine Arts Deans, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Nu.
Married Mary Florence Catharine Reynolds, August 24, 1963. Children: Mary Courtney, Cristin Lee, Catharine Elizabeth, Carrie Jean.