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GORDON N COPE
1906 - 1999
Olpin, Robert S., William C. Seifrit, and Vern G. Swanson. ARTISTS OF UTAH. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1999: 57.
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Biographyspent most of his career in Utah as a solid painter of oils on canvas. A Salt Lake City-born talent, he began his training in art as a youth with A.B. Wright (q.v.) and LeConte Stewart (q.v.) from 1916 to 1923. Working also with Lawrence Squires (q.v.) the following year in Arizona, the young painter went on for European study of the "old masters" in England, France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, and Holland from 1924 to 1928. Also a student at the Academie Julian in his last year abroad, he then returned to Salt Lake City to eventually become head of the art department of LDS University for the 1930-31 school year. A gifted stylized painter of both portraits and landscapes, Cope continued a halting career in art education with the Mountain School of Art (1932-33) and then as director of the Art Barn School and teacher for the Works Project Administration from 1939 through 1941. The artist's work was once handled locally by the Stable Gallery in Salt Lake City. For many years now, Cope has resided and painted in San Francisco, California. (b. May 14)
Olpin, Robert S., William C. Seifrit, and Vern G. Swanson. ARTISTS OF UTAH. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1999: 57.