Richard Armstrong Murray was born in Utah and attended the University of Utah. He is a talented and widely collected Utah painter of atmospheric, romantic landscapes and portraits of animals.

Several years ago, Murray relocated to a ranch/studio property bordering the Snake River in eastern Oregon. His work can be categorized by subject and time period – earlier works investigated the landscape, followed by a long period of highly successful life-size animal portraits with hand-painted frames.

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Utah-born Brooke Morrison is a printmaker and commercial artist.

Artist Peter Max was born in Berlin and spent his childhood in Shanghai. From China, the family went to Tibet for a year, and then on to Israel. Peter Max’s family’s odyssey continued to Paris, and finally, at the age of 16, Max arrived in the United States.

He began his art studies in New York at the Art Students League and continued at the Pratt Institute and School of Visual Arts. Max is famous for his new age style, cosmic imagery and multi-colored blends. During the late 1960’s and early 70’s, Peter Max’s colorful art reached millions of people and he won numerous major awards for his work. Peter Max’s paintings, drawings, sculpture and limited edition graphics have been exhibited in major museums throughout the world.

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Idaho native Elva Malin is a popular Utah landscape painter. She has studied at the University of Utah, and with Ken and Dan Baxter and other local teachers. Her work is offered by Apple Frame Gallery in Bountiful, Williams Fine Art in Salt Lake City, and Authentique Gallery in St. George, Utah.

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Lester Bird Lee received a BFA from Utah State University and an MA in education from BYU. He was active as a teacher for Davis County School District and now resides in Logan, Utah.

His work has been exhibited at the Utah Arts Festival and the Park City Arts Festival.  He has also worked as a commercial illustrator.

Lester Lee was awarded the 2006 Huntsman Award of Excellence in Education award, and was been recipient of the Utah Art Education Association as High School Art Teacher of the Year for 2000.

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Jean Krillé was a Swiss artist who visited Utah on numerous occasions before his death in 1991. He was an expressionist painter of large, painterly fauvist canvases, frequently referencing the mountains and mountain valleys in Utah and Switzerland.

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