Allen Dale Roberts

Born in 1947, Allen Dale Roberts was raised in Milwaukee and the San Francisco Bay area before settling permanently in Utah where he received a B.A. in Art & Design with an architectural major from Brigham Young University in 1973, and later pursued advanced studies in architecture, history, and philosophy at the University of Utah. He has loved art since he was a young child and at age twelve received a scholar￾ship to the Milwaukee Art Institute where he did his first oil painting. An architect and historic preservationist by profession and writer by avocation, Roberts revived his long-dormant interest in fine art and began painting in 1991 after a nearly twenty year hiatus from artistic activity. A believer in “plein aire” painting, he pursued his interest in the Utah land￾scape and historic built environment. Inspired by outdoor painting experi￾ences with Randall Lake, Earl Jones, and Ken Baxter, Roberts is also fond of the turn-of-the-century realist works of John Singer Sargeant and Utah’s master tonalist, LeConte Stewart. Currently co-editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought and co￾author of Pulitzer Prize-nominee, Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders, Roberts plans to focus increasingly on representational and symbolic painting as a means of self-expression. His paintings have been exhibited in galleries throughout Utah, where he also has exhibited his paintings, drawings, and photographs in a one-man show.