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Waldo Midgley & Francis Zimbeaux Staff Pick
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As society becomes increasingly globalized, traditional notions of art history become less relevant. We can discover a unique relevance in Utah's own diversity and richness of culture, all of which contribute to a particular Utah art history. It's a history brimming with artists whose legacies and inspirations, connectivity and relationships, are an open door, waiting for us to enter. The pairing of two very different artists in the current Phillips Gallery show—Waldo Midgley, noted for his associations with famed New York City artists in the early part of the 20th century; and the generation-younger Francis Zimbeaux, ultimately a Modernist—demonstrates surprising similarities that are more overt than their differences. Midgley was a formative figure in expressive, freely rendered scenes of natural life—both flora & fauna and city life, both historic structures and scenes teeming with city-dwellers—that were immediately influential. Zimbeaux was inspired by scenes from nature and architectural renderings, with a similar liberality of gesture and color wash. But what truly draws them together is their mutual sense of the fantastical. With Midgley, this is represented in the etching "Doe and Fawn" (detail pictured), as the creatures—in woodland against picturesque mountain grandeur—convey an aspect almost otherworldly. Zimbeaux, with a modernist approach—as in "Untitled, 1995"—accesses the fantastical through a generous, loose use of line, rendering with uninhibited creativity a woodland scene with a pair of reclining nudes in the foreground, three nudes dancing in the center. They may have been one critical generation apart chronologically, but they were much alike in spirit. (Ehren Clark)
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