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Show 26 Energy Edition, January, 1983 Carbon County is home for renowned sculptor The boy who found it as important to draw pictures as learn to read is now a professor of art and a renowned sculptor. He is James Young of the College of Eastern Utah in Price, where he heads the rt 635 Rural Route 1, Box 260 East North Cold Creek Road 637-596- 3 LICENSED CONTRACTOR Department PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION Septic Tanks Drain Fills All kinds of Excavations FREE ESTIMATES directs on the cam- pus. Born and raised in Carbon County, Young earned a BA degree in sculpture and painting from Brigham Young University and a Masters in Fine Arts at Utah State. Youngs range of expertise embraces painting, sculpture, ceramics, Specializing in and Gallery East graphics and commercial art. His favorite form is clay to bronze sculpture. My art has to make a statement, he says. I like for each piece to represent a part of the true history of this part of the country. I plan to begin a series of bronzes depicting Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch. His real name was Robert LeRoy Parker and he was born south of here in Beaver, Utah on Friday the 13th, 1866. I once met his younger sister, Lula Betenson. She still lives right near here in Circleville. Lula said that Butch loved his family so much that, when he became an outlaw, he changed his name to keep from embarrassing James Young with his bronze entitled "Leftovers". He says that it is reminiscent of when he was six years old, running to see what was left over in his father's lunch pail. "I think he left some food just for me." Sculptor them. Anyone who would do that for his family cant be all bad. Young has always been of the and family depended on coal mining for survival that I chose to become an artist, he says. His work ranges from exreluctant to be part universal world. Perhaps it is pressive realism to conbecause my ancestors settled temporary abstraction. His eastern Utah and my friends most recent bronzes are devoted to capturing the history that is most important to him. I have a nostalgia for the but I try not to allow my past, BOLT sentiment to glorify this history. Instead, I concentrate on the reality of a somewhat 84016 Post Office Box 1211 2 Utah Clearfield, Telephone (801) harsh, brutal existence. My sense of that reality is based in WORLDS LARGEST SUPPLIER part on my exploration of and work in the underground of of coal mining. I operations MINE ROOF CONTROL PRODUCTS have always lived near the few remaining primitive areas in Utah and attempt to reflect nature in my work. His artistic aim? To express my deepest feelings for the heritage by raising the commonplace to the noble, sculpting the everyday routines of miners until the bronze speaks of their simplest joys, their daily ROOF BOLTS PLATES EXPANSION SHELLS struggle, their most profound triumphs. ROOF STRAPS ROOF TRUSSES The process from clay to bronze is a long and comRESIN CARTRIDGES plicated process. Hie initial sculpture is done in artists clay and a flexible latex mold BIRMINGHAM COMPANY 773-580- 3 3 (Continued on Page 27) |