10 works you should know
according to Brent Wilson; Artist, retired professor and head of Art Education at the School of Visual Arts at The Pennsylvania State University.
originally published June 2020.
About:
Brent Wilson received a Ph.D. in art education from the Ohio State University (1966), an MFA in painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art (1958), and a BS in art and education from Utah State University (1956). He is a professor emeritus in the School of Visual Arts at Penn State. He has authored four books; four-dozen book chapters, chapters in conference proceedings, and research monographs; and over 100 research and evaluative reports. During the 1970s he developed the first National Assessment of Educational Progress in Art, in the 1980s he did the research for and drafted Toward Civilization: A Report to the President and Congress [on the status of arts education in the US], and in the 1980s and 90s he evaluated professional development programs of the Getty Education Institute for the Arts (which culminated in the publication of The Quiet Evolution: Changing the Face of Arts Education), and also in the 90s he served as a researcher for the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
1
64 artists (American, born in England, Scotland, Wales, Canada, Switzerland, and the United States)
Fourteenth Ward Album Quilt, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1857
textile, 125 x 99 inches
Church History Museum and private collections
2
Truman O. Angell (American, 1810-1887)
Salt Lake Temple (1893)
granite exterior, 222 feet tall, 253,014 sq. feet (floor area)
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah
3
Carl Christian Anton Christensen (American, born Denmark, 1831-1912)
Mormon Panorama (23 scenes; 22 extant)
tempera paintings, 175 foot long scroll, separated posthumously into panels 6 x 10 feet
Brigham Young University Museum of Art
4
Jeanne Leighton Lundberg Clarke (American, 1925-2014)
Entertaining: Favorite Ladies II (1992-94)
oil on canvas, 42 x 60 inches
Springville Museum of Art
5
Rose Hartwell (American, 1861-1917)
oil on canvas, 23.75 x 28.75 inches
Brigham Young University Museum of Art
6
Brian Kershisnik (American, born 1962)
oil on canvas, 90 x 204 inches
Brigham Young University Museum of Art
7
V. Douglas Snow (American, 1927-2009)
oil on canvas, 45.5 x 62 inches
Private collection
8
Mahonri Young (American, 1877-1957)
This Is the Place Monument (1947)
[assisted by Spero Anargyros and Waldo Midgley]
bronze and granite, dimensions variable: 60 feet high x 84 feet long x 20 feet wide
This Is the Place Monument, Salt Lake City, Utah
10
Joseph Paul Vorst (American, born Germany, 1897-1947)
For Thine Is the Kingdom (ca. 1944)
oil on canvas on panel, 51.125 x 41.875 inches
Saint Louis Art Museum, Eliza McMillan Trust