Artists

Harrison Thomas Groutage was born in 1925 in Richmond, Utah. He is an arts administrator and painter known for his realist and tonalist paintings of Cache County, Utah. He lives in Logan, Utah. Groutage attended Utah State Agricultural College where Everett Thorpe and Calvin Fletcher were major influences. He also attended Weber State College and earned his BA from Brigham Young University in 1953 and MFA from the University of Utah in 1954. He joined the faculty at Utah State University in 1955 and became chairperson of the art department in 1965. Groutage has received awards from the National Watercolor Society, Snowbird Institute, and the Springville Museum of Art. In 1999, he was presented with the Governor’s Award in the Arts by the state of Utah. Groutage’s paintings, Along the Bear River (1978), Back Road (1977), Integration (1959), and San Francisco, Waterfront(1965), are part of the Springville Museum of Art’s permanent collection.

Gary Collins, contemporary oil and watercolor painter and one of Utah’s finest landscape artists, was born in the mid 30’s and has drawn and painted since early childhood. He grew up in a nurturing family that fostered his artistic talent and his innate appreciation of art. At a young age he studied the art of the early Utah painters and practiced duplicating works of the masters such as Van Gough and Matisse. His early interest in art, sparked by teachers and his grandfather, a poet and naturalist, eventually led Gary to sample a variety of related professions while painting; interior and graphic design, architecture and illustration. Selling his first works at the age of 20, Gary ultimately realized his dream to paint full time in 1969. A press release from a Los Angeles gallery said of Gary Collins, “Many artists have the ability to depict a landscape. Few have the talent to show a viewer what the places feels like.”

Cornell Capa was a Hungarian–American photographer, member of Magnum Photos, photo curator, and the younger brother of photo-journalist and war photographer Robert Capa.

Bart Jennings Morse (August 16, 1938 – April 20, 2010) was an American artist whose work focused on the American Southwest. Morse’s style was figurative and largely landscape-based, but also distinctive in his color, surface, and imagery.

KIM WHITESIDES is an artist in New York who is sometimes mistaken by his friends for Lamont Cranston.

CALVIN J. SUMSION is an Associate Professor and Chairman of the Graphic Design Emphasis of the Art Department at the University of Utah.

JOHN TAYE is a Los Angeles artist who teaches painting at the Hollywood Art Center School and is a scenic artist for CBS Television. An exhibition of his work was recently shown at the Wylan Gallery in Beverly Hills.