RANSOM GILLETT HOLDREDGE

Holdredge, Ransom Gillet (1836-1899). This painter of "the vast panorama of the West" was born in New York City but spent most of his career in the San Fransisco Bay area. Holdredge traveled extensively throughout the Far West, Northwest, Southwest and Rocky Mountains (ca. 1870) where he painted such work as "Brigham Canyon, Wasatch Mountains", which is now located in the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. He was also successful as a landscapist in 1882 Utah, even though he was overshadowed by such painters as Albert Bierstadt and William Keith. But he considered himself a failure because he "wanted renown as a portrait painter"; he died unhappy and penniless at the end of the century.

Olpin, Robert S., William C. Seifrit, and Vern G. Swanson. ARTISTS OF UTAH. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1999: 130.