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Donald Penrod Olsen

Donald Penrod Olsen (1910 - 1985) was active/lived in Utah.  Donald Olsen is known for Abstract expressionist painting, teaching.

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The following biography was complied by Donna Mae Peters Nunley, former student of the artist.


Don Penrod Olsen was born in 1910 and died in Utah 1985.  He made Utah his home.  Don was one of the most significant artists of Utah to emerge with more of a direct line with radical modernism.  He was an art teacher at Jordan High School and the Art Barn, which later became the Salt Lake Art Center.  Olsen wanted to meld the Utah School with national directions of abstract expressionism in art.

He bridged the early and later Utah generations of modernism most effectively.  Don worked through many of the abstract languages of art more brutally, from "BRUSHED-ACTION PAINTING" (abstract expressionism) to "HARD- EDGE" (minimalism).  He fell in between the lines of Gothic abstract painting.  He understood the intent of abstract expression better than anyother Utahn.

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Title:  Enigma Variation
Type:  Painting
Medium:  Acrylic
Ground:  Canvas
Style:  Abstract
Subject:  Abstract/Modern
Signature:  Signed and Dated
Year Created:  1976
Size:  72.00" x 60.00"
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