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FARRELL R. COLLETT

born 1907

Biographyof Provo, Ogden, and St. George, Utah, is a well-known Utah illustrator, painter, and educator. A native of Bennington, Idaho, he went to Brigham Young University for early art training and then became a freelance illustrator in Provo from 1933 to 1938. Collett spent summer sessions at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco (1934), and in Chicago at the Art Institute (1935, 1937) and the American Academy of Art (1938). He became a high school art instructor in Ogden in 1938, and then joined the art staff of Weber College (WSU) in 1939. In 1954, he won a purchase prize for a portrait at the Springville Annual, continued at Weber through the 1950s into the 1970s, was appointed art chair there, and found recognition as a very capable painter of animal and landscape pictures. His work was exhibited in the 1970s at the Utah Museum of Natural History in a one-man show, as well as other places, and he eventually became a recipient of the Governor's Award in the Arts. Today Collett is still an active painter of animals. (b. November 13)

Olpin, Robert S., William C. Seifrit, and Vern G. Swanson. ARTISTS OF UTAH. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1999: 56.

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