| Show Tribe THE ARTS The Salt Lake Childhood passion led Collett to create department Continued from ST GEORGE — When the Rembrandt-va- particularly loved the books of Ernest Thompson Seton reading Rolph in the Woods Two Little Savages and The Grizzly King five or six times by age 11 "I loved the wonderful little pen drawings he put in the margins?' Collett went on to became the illustrator of more than 27 books including a number of chuldren's classics He also has done major projects for Browning Arms Pepsi-CoTexaco and most recently the National Parks Service for which he painted a detailed guide of the Oregon Trail He became enamored of cougars at Brigham Young University where two of the animals whose mother had been killed were raised for several years "I fen in love with those cats and I used to haunt the runway where they lived" He was fascinated by their -grace — When they jumped from the top of their little house they didn't make a sound" He's been painting cougars ever since- la - rt - Believing he needed more training Collett left the state periodically to study elsewhere — in Los Angeles New York and Chicago He also took a European sabbatical concentrating on the people and landscape of England Scotland Portugal and Spain After his stint at the Art Students League he remained in New York another year worldng ho tpt!ig )? oqifiMIX Vfl Woolca r ' I - 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as an illustrator Martie Collett remembers she didn't want her husband to leave "I always thought he should have just painted and not taught" "I proved I could make it in New York and that satisfied me" Collett says And he was eager to return home He yearned for the mountains and as an avid fly fisher missed the area's riven and lakes But Martie believes he missed his students most of all When Collett was teaching the only time he could find to paint was the wee hours of morning Today he rises early takes a long walk through the nearby desert then retreats to the small studio attached to his home In addition to the outdoors he and Martie have shared interests — among them art travel and books She was director of special collections at the Weber State Library for a number of years His favorite paintings tend to be hers From their own collec an Mara krq) d along with horses they number among his most popular works After graduating from BIM Collett planned to continue his studies in New York but instead opened a sign shop to pay off debts Then when the art teacher at Provo High School was killed in an accident the young artist volunteered his services until a new art teacher could be found His teaching career was launched From Provo Collett went to Ogden High then to Weber State the next year where he became the one-mart department that to13 numbers day A Company cf Four a leader in Utah s performirg scene since its inception a decade ago is the recipient of a prestipous $25000 grat from Dancing Commiaon the Streets' TE sioning Fund in New York It is one of five projects in the United States selected for projects totAlirg 120000 In announcing the award the grantors s-h- th 10-ye- ar ur 11 Fer- Califonaia to Southern Utah (Danny Ferrante married a Richfield native) collecting art along the way Blakley museum director and professor of art at Dixie College said he and city officials were always skeptical of the authenticity of some of the works "We never thought they had a Rembrandt or van Gogh but believed they might have a Degas" Blakley says research proved they did not What the Ferrante brothers did have Blakley says was a good collection of minor works "Some were copies or studies Some were very old some were very nice Others were done very poorly" But Blakley says be and city officials believed that as an educational tool for the community there were enough good minor works to serve as the basis for a museum Thus the Ferrantes struck a deal with the loan of their city of St George — a - 4 well-lighte- rante brothers — Eugene and Danny twins who made their way from New Jersey to Post or American Magazine (Branson later became a friend of the Co Iletts: two of his paintings hang in their St George house) There were other inspirations He read Greek and Norse mythology and The Arabian Nights and nt police-departme- n art collection of the - 4 St George Art Museum opened its doors three years agc it was under a flurry of controversy These days theres zero controversy according to museum director Glen B Elakley The museum was designed to house the s-a- s spective All the others we've curated here" To date the museum has had exhibits featuring works of the late Robert L Shepher& a watercolorist spent Ls last years in the St George area: Minerva Teichert a artist noted for Castrations of The Book ofMarrion: and Milton Goldstein a nationally recognized photovvpher who byes in southern Utah The museum also has presented various group shows: "The Fine Art of the Original Print" "Art of the American West" "Recent Acquisitions of the St George Art Museum and "Mo las: Folk Art of the Cana "old masters" in return for a place for them to be displayed Officials came up with $30000 to renovate the evidence room in the basement of city halt Eakley was credited with traraorraing and trate-lui-l the space into a to we were "If going display the Ferspace rante works I wanted to do it right" he said at the time When the exhibit opened in January 1991 Malley says the museum staff distanced itself from the Ferrantes' cLirns by issuing a disclaimer "By displaying the work we were not validating it" Blakley says The Ferrantes however continued talking up their "original" art prompting a Utah magazine to report in jest "Michelangelo sighted in St George" Soon other shows went up in the museum And although the museum's contract with the Ferrantes allowed for other exhibitions ultimately the brothers wanted exclusivity When an agreement could not be reached according to Blakley the Ferrantes pulled all their works from the St George Art Muassociation seum after an The collection is now in storage in Southern California where Danny Ferrante lives Eugene continues to live in Richfield Blakley says and the art museum the city's first has taken on a life of its own "Since then we've gone ahead and just been a museum" Blakley says "We've only rented one show — the Larry Elsner retro By Helen Forsberg THZ SALT LAKE TETUN E D-- 1 ct Company of Four dance group wins a $25000 grant St George museum hangs its reputation on local talent program was what Collett believed in order "All of the undversities looked down their noses at me saying commercial art was a prosttu ton" Collett forged ahead placing artists he says in jobs throughout the country Adelmaan says Co llen legacy to the college is "keeping the art department afloat for a long time when there want much money" — The professor also remembers Collett as master of the pun a tra dition that continues today James Mc Beth chairman of the WSLI art department says Collett ':ma de good choices in faculty members "They have dramatically influenced the quality and direction of the department today" —which he points out has undergone major change "It's less regionally oriented - and more involved with international trends and concerns" Most agree that Collett inspired loyalty from those be taught Don Jardine a former student who went on to become editor of Illustrator Magazine and director of education at Art Instruction Schools both Minneapolis-base- d :calls Collett "a master teacher I studied with him as long as a Nssibly could" he says "because I learned more from Farrell Collett than I did from all my other art : instructors combined" Collett patterned his teaching - methods after his own instructors "I employed things my teachers did that helped me most For every teacher that had some device some way of presenting something I borrowed it" Born in a log cabin in Beiming- ton Idaho in 1907 Collett grew horses pulling beets -!up riding bucking hay and milking cows At a tender age he was a voracious artist reader and serious-minde-d remembers a teacher who : ' He aloud to her students for a read bAlf-hoeach day "I could everything she read" he - imagine says Soon he began to illustrate the stories himself — a pastime that eventually would become a profession ' Collett was so taken with art that as a young boy he rode his bicycle to the Georgetown Idaho library to see if the art work of Paul Branson or Charles Living:ston Bull — two of the noted animal artists of their time — was on : : the cover of Saturday Evening vi D3 Sunday January Z3 1294 - 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