LeConte Stewart: Depression Era Art

Opens July 21, 2011
 10am - 5pm ~ Tues, Thurs, Friday
10am - 8pm ~ Wed.
11am - 5pm ~ Sat. & Sun
Utah Museum of Fine Arts (directions)

In an exciting collaboration, the UMFA has teamed up with the L.D.S. Church History Museum to stage the largest exhibition ever mounted of Utah artist LeConte Stewart's work.

The UMFA's retrospective will examine defining works created during the Great Depression, a period when the artist examined thematic images of progress juxtaposed to the human consequences of economic upheaval.

The L.D.S. Church History Museum will exhibit a survey of Stewart's large body of landscape works on paper and paintings with an emphasis of rural Utah. Farmhouses, barns and fields are depicted in rich tones with thick impasto and loose brushstrokes. They are familiar scenes of the western environment. It is a backdrop in which Stewart found not only the isolation he sought throughout his life, but a spirit in the land that was of solace to him.


$7 adults
$5 seniors/youth
 $0 children under 6