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PAUL SALISBURY
1903 - 1973
Olpin, Robert S., William C. Seifrit, and Vern G. Swanson. ARTISTS OF UTAH. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1999: 233.
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BiographySalisbury, Paul (1903-1973), of Richfield and Provo, was one of Utah's first and most successful cowboy western artists (figures and landscapes in oil and watercolor). He was a prolific painter and a prodigious teacher, a member of the Associated Utah Artists, and one of a few Utah artists who could paint genre subjects using multi-figures. An excellent composer and colorist, his work was in popular demand in Utah County during the 1950s and '60s. In August 1959, a Salisbury exhibit was held by the Utah State Historical Society in its Salt Lake gallery. On view there were twenty-five works by the well-known Cornelius Salisbury and ten by the younger Paul Salisbury. Yet, of the two, the latter painter had already achieved greater fame outside of Utah. For example, Paul Salisbury's "Riders of the Range" (1953, oil on canvas, Springville Museum of Art) has that kind of decorative and romantic "cowboy authenticity" that sells so well within the context of America's ongoing love affair with, and monstrous monetary market for, paintings and bronzes in celebration of "the Old West." (b. Novermber 21; d. September 9)
Olpin, Robert S., William C. Seifrit, and Vern G. Swanson. ARTISTS OF UTAH. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1999: 233.