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TORLEIF SEVERIN KNAPHUS
1881 - 1965
Olpin, Robert S., William C. Seifrit, and Vern G. Swanson. ARTISTS OF UTAH. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1999: 156.
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Biographyof Salt Lake City, was one of Utah's finest realist sculptors in bronze and sometimes other materials. Originally from Vats, Stavanger, Norway, Knaphus took his early training at the King's Academy in Oslo with Lars Utne (1913), at the Julian Academy in Paris, and with Harriott Barker. Coming finally to Utah as a Mormon convert, he also worked in LDS temples in Arizona, Canada, and Idaho, while teaching at Brigham Young University and the University of Utah. Normally a very traditionally realistic worker in the third dimension, his "Handcart Group" on Salt Lake¿s Temple Square is well-known locally, while another of the sculptor's pieces can be seen at Hill Cumorah, Palmyra, New York. Yet there are other sculptural things by him expressing a fine sense of the art deco stylistic vocabulary--his work for the LDS temple in Cardston, Canada, for example. Occasionally, Knaphus also painted landscaped in oil. (b. December 14; d June 14)
Olpin, Robert S., William C. Seifrit, and Vern G. Swanson. ARTISTS OF UTAH. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1999: 156.