Word art that reads: At the heart of it all.

Dive deeper into the history of the art on view, explore the behind-the-scenes workings of the Museum, and get down to the heart of it all with this monthly blog from the Utah Museum of Fine Arts! Explore topics like:

Art History
Stories Behind the Art
Community
BEhind-the-Scenes
Object Origins
A sepia-toned stereograph shows a group of Native American men, women, and children in traditional attire, sitting and standing on rocky terrain, posed in front of a rock wall.

De-mist-ifying Thomas Moran’s Painting of Kanab

Facing Thomas Moran’s staggering depiction of Utah’s well-loved desert south can leave observers disoriented, especially those of us who consider […]
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A collage-style oil painting featuring geometric shapes in varying shades of red, white, blue, black and brown.

A Masterpiece Worth the Wait: Finding Manhattan in Utah

In an art history survey class during my sophomore year of college, one of my brilliant professors, Susan Richmond, assigned […]
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