Thursday, September 18, 2014

Early Utah Art





Rural landscape by Utah artist Hilma Mole, dated 1930.

Hilma Mole Payne (1902-1965) was born in Croydon, Utah, and lived most of her life in Ogden. She studied under famed Utah artist, James Taylor Harwood, art department chair at the University of Utah. Mole (Payne) graduated from Weber College and the University of Utah. In 1928 she went to Paris, via London, where she enrolled in the Academie Julian. She also studied at the California School of Arts and Crafts in Berkley.  

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