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VERLA L. BIRRELL
1903 - 2001
Olpin, Robert S., William C. Seifrit, and Vern G. Swanson. ARTISTS OF UTAH. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1999: 24.
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Biographyborn in Tacoma, Washington, is an interior designer and landscape painter. She was on the Brigham Young University faculty (1937-48) before she moved to the University of Utah's Department of Home Economics. One of the most extensively and variously trained of all Utah artists, Birrell's educational experience can be summarized in the following way: University of Utah (B.S., 1928), with J.T. Florence Ware; graduate study in anthropology at U of U (1957); Art Students League, New York City (summers, 1931, 1955-56); BYU (1938, 1946-47), with B.F. Larsen and J. Roman Andrus (q.v.); University of Southern California (summer 1939); Claremont Graduate School, California (M.F.A., 1942); Escuala de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (summer 1944); Chicago Academy of Fine Arts (summer 1950), etc. A painter, interior designer, textile designer, serigrapher, poetess, and historian, Birrell was also rather widely published in the 1940s and '50s, and headed an interior design major in home economics until her retirement in the early 1970s. (b. November 24)
Olpin, Robert S., William C. Seifrit, and Vern G. Swanson. ARTISTS OF UTAH. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1999: 24.