Magleby
FRANK MAGLEBY
Dr. Francis R. (Frank) Magleby was born in Idaho and spent his early years there in a rural community where his father was a school teacher and rancher. He is from Mormon Pioneer stock (4th Generation) on both sides of his family and takes great pride in his western heritage. His family moved to Portland, Oregon, when he was six years old and he received his elementary and secondary education there. He was early recognized as an artist and among the honors he received as a young man, was a scholarship to the Portland Art Museum School, and a trip to New York City as the winner of an art contest sponsored by Northwest Airlines.He attended Brigham Young University on a football scholarship, majored in art, received a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1950 and a Master of Science Degree in 1952. While a college student, Dr. Magleby spent his summers studying and paintings with his uncle, Dean Fausett, at his summer home in Dorset, Vermont. Encouragement and help during this time also came from another uncle, the late Lynn Fausett of Salt Lake City.As an Army photographer in Europe from 1952 to 1954, Dr. Magleby had the opportunity to study great works of art in Italy and throughout Europe. Returning from abroad he studied at the American Art School and the Art Students League in New York City. At that time he also worked as a mural painters assistant with Dean Fausett on several large murals.In 1955, while living in New York City, he was accepted as an artist member of the Grand Central Art Galleries. He has been honored with one-man shows at Grand Central as well as the Southern Vermont Art Center in Manchester, Vermont.Dr. Magleby welcomed a chance to return west so in 1959 accepted a position to join the faculty at Brigham Young University. He completed in 1967 from Columbia University a Doctors Degree in Art Education, with emphasis in teaching studio classes on the college level. From 1965 through 1968 he served as the Director of the B.F. Larsen gallery on the BYU campus. He had one-man shows there in 1968, 1974, and 1991. As a member of the faculty, he, his wife, and five children participated in the University Semester Abroad Program and in 1972 and 1979 spent semesters in Madrid, Spain. He also has taken art students during spring terms to Mexico and Europe on four different occasions. Dr. Magleby retired in 1990 after more than three decades at BYU.His paintings hang in public and private collections throughout the United States, including many works purchased by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for exhibition in its offices, museums, and Temples. In recent years he completed a large mural of Glacier Nations Park as a backdrop for the Grizzly Bear Diorama in the Bean Museum at BYU. For the past several years he has exhibited his paintings at the Weixler Gallery in Salt Lake City, and the Wadle Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.In April 1994 he and his wife began a service mission for the LDS church. He was called as a Painter for the Church. For 18 Months they traveled throughout the United States, Great Britain, and China. He completed 24 paintings for Temples including the following, Hong Kong, London, and Preston England, Orlando, San Diego, Boston, White Plains, Nashville, St. Louis, Timpanogos, and others not yet determined.Frank Magleby chooses to paint landscapes because nature is an important part of his visual world. He loves to roam the back roads of America and Europe. The variety of moods and the ever changing light are major stimuli for what he paints. Color relationships are an important concern in his paintings. The paintings have grown in scale over the last few years and because of the impact of size and the tendency to draw viewers into the painting, it enables them to participate with the effects of light and color. At present he divides his time between his homes in Vermont and Utah as both places have the material he loves most to paint.
"Country Stream, Dorsel, VT." 23x27
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