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DAVID HOWEL ROSENBAUM
1908 - 1982
Olpin, Robert S., William C. Seifrit, and Vern G. Swanson. ARTISTS OF UTAH. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1999: 225.
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BiographyDuring the 1930s and early '40s, a number of the most exciting expressionist images done in Utah were by Howell Rosenbaum, an artist often associated with the "Logan group." Born in Brigham City, Utah, this painter of wonderfully rich and emotional landscapes and figures studied art in 1931 under Calvin Fletcher (q.v.) at the Utah State Agricultural College (USU). He then painted and developed on his own until 1938 as an exceptionally effective and unique landscapist of controlled emotion. A bold colorist and yet a thoughtful compositional artist as well (these elements seen in highly imaginative landscape flights), Rosenbaum was an intense loner. Then, in March 1942, Rosenbaum joined the Seabees and became, for a while at least, a Utah painter who worked in Guadalcanal. The artist arrived back home again sometime after the war, and was a staunch recluse from that time on. He died in Ogden over thirty years later, without saying too much more to anybody connected with his earlier years as one of our most gifted painters. (b. May 20; d. December 3)
Olpin, Robert S., William C. Seifrit, and Vern G. Swanson. ARTISTS OF UTAH. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1999: 225.