Show Page 4 April 141994 Arts & Entertainment In memorlam George Dibble paintinge on paper George Smith Dibble's friends remember him as a remarkable man in that and a fine painter-alway- s was known to "swipe" his wife's makeup brush on occasion Bom March 29 1904 in Laie Oahu Hawaii Dibble left the island for Utah at age 3 As a child Dibble received his first painting lessons from his mother Reared on a Layton ranch he developed a love of landscape and an aversion for fences Dibble later supplemented his mother's watcrcolor lessons with a correspondence course on cartooning that helped him land his first job at The Salt Lake Tribune in 1924 He sold cartoons to the newspaper to finance his education at the University of Utah and earned a teaching certificate there in 1926 He taught school in Davis County for a couple of yeats and returned to the University of Utah to study art order This legacy led to the selections for his memorial exhibition to emphasize those paintings that best reveal the individual behind the artistry "In Memoriam George Dibble" will be featured in Gallery East at the College of Eastern Utah April 10 y It's 44 works-on-pape- ranging r from tlur 1430s through the 1480s show Dibble's evolution and chronicle the life experiences that nude the paintings possible Most luxe nexer before been exhibited I’rexiouxlx seen works represent pix o!il jx'inls in Dibble’s academic dexelopmer: or were mclided because ihcx seem exe:'::i! to lurthering the rurraiixe opect of liv By 1453 Dibble was teaching and writing an art criticism column exlrbfoir D'bb e was j xisiorurx pairler who nexer let reality get in the way of truth He was mdffeteri to geology A for install e painting not mountains but feelings about mountains Always willing to sacrifice xletail for essence Dibble intended his work to be "not a George Dibble painting featured as part of the exhibit at Gallery East in CElTs main building Photo by Lonnie Behunin stxlied images “Things are never as they look anyway" he once said Rut the suggestive imagery he favored wasn't always an option As a Utah artist far ahead of his lime Dibble was forced for a period to limit his expression in order to survive There was animosity toward modem art in the state when he Utah writer Patricia McConnel will be featured at CEU The Cxxllcgc of Eastern hosting Patricu McConnel as the next writer to appear in the Readers Series program McConnel a Utah resident will read passages from her work at 8:(X) pm on McConnell has written numerous works of fiction as well as nonfiction and has received national recognition for these works She also s edited HVwu-n'- Voices Within: An x began creating Dibble worked from the palette to his the paper rarely colors Nor did he pencil in a sketch before painting lie would load three or four colors on the brush at once with the darker colors at the lip He pre-mixi- 2) Nictschc slated “that which docs not destroy me makes me stronger" This read in many states including an appearance at the Library of Congress in Washington DC Thursday April 21 in the CEU Student Little Theatre She will read fnm The Hjx Lie a short story and I he Quest for FU:abcth Halfpenny her most recent project a novel about a woman traveling alone and on foot in Southeastern Utah it Ulibarri (coni from page during the Great Depression McConnel is a full-tim- e writer who has published several books She has is Activity-Center'- Dibble's remarkable diversity ns a painter might be attributed to his teaching or to his constant exposure to new work in galleries as The Tribune’s art critic But Dibble said in 1989 it is "because I feel so diversely" George Smith Dibble died on June 1 1992 He was 88 ist "What is real is pretty much a philosophical question" He felt that “a painting which has more precarious mxMnents in its creation offers little side roads for the viewer to go down to sec it differently at each moment" portrait of what you would see but glimpse on one day lie captured the spirit of what was before him in Utah w as appointed Professor Emeritus in 1472 he continued to teach at the LI of U until 1984 He taught every major Utah watercolor- Though he Anthology of Writings From the Women's Correctional Facility Draper IT McConnel w ill be meeting with Readers Series patrons at a reception in the Alumni Room following the reading which by the way is free I believe Our concerns should be to do good deeds on Earth not so that we go to heaven but so that Earth is our heaven If I believe in a heaven separate from hell than I must believe that some people won't make it with me to heaven I do not want to believe this I want everybody to be w ith me in a heaven But I do not w ant that heaven when I die I want it now Death and teliefs surrounding death are personal and important There is an old Yiddish expression "When the righteous die even the Heavens cry” Indeed the heavens did cry when Roni Nichols passed away I think she was a lady who made each day her own heaven She always had a kind word or a big smile for everybody Her heaven I hope was her Earth r Advertise uo wrronraiuj Good Ml 01 v - OR I The for more information V ! 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