LeConte Stewart

LeConte Stewart was born 15 April 1891 in Glenwood, Utah. After school￾ing at Ricks Academy in Rexburg, Idaho, he studied art in Salt Lake City in 1912, and with the Art Students League in Woodstock, New York, and New York City in 1913-14. While on a mission in Hawaii in 1917-19, he was assigned to paint murals and decorative detail for the temple in Laie. He married Zipporah Layton while in Hawaii, and taught school and proselyted as well. In 1920-22, he painted murals in the Cardston Alberta temple, and returned to settle in Kaysville, Utah, in 1923. He was head of the Ogden High School art department from 1923-38, and from 1938-56 was chairman of the University of Utah Art Department. Stewart taught in elementary schools, high schools, and at the University of Utah, and after retiring in 1956 continued to teach, both with the Univer￾sity and privately in Davis County. His on-site landscape painting classes con￾tinued through the mid-1980s, and he worked actively in painting and draw￾ing the landscapes of rural northern Utah to the age of ninety-five. Stewart’s failing health has recently forced him to retire from painting, and at present he resides in a health care center in Clearfield, Utah.