{"id":37158,"date":"2018-02-10T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T02:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=37158"},"modified":"2025-11-12T12:12:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T19:12:31","slug":"revisiting-the-logan-art-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/revisiting-the-logan-art-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting the Logan Art Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Winter<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cFarmington Winter\u201d (1924) by LeConte Stewart sold for $126,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

By unanimous vote, the Logan City School District Board of Education finalized the sale of 10 paintings in the district\u2019s collection purchased with the milk money of elementary students in the 1930s that became worth a good deal: in this instance $435,061.<\/p>\n

The initial purchase was organized by early Utah arts champion Alice Merrill Horne; the current auction was opposed by her great-granddaughters Salt Lake City gallery owner Karen Horne and her sister Bonnie Horne Schroader; the Utah Cultural Alliance that presented a petition with nearly\u00a0800 signatures; Scott Bushman of the Cache County Historical Society; Katie Lee-Korvan, executive director and chief curator of USU\u2019s Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art; and many other art professionals and supporters (see our article\u00a0here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

While\u00a0David Ericson<\/a>, the Salt Lake City art dealer who handled the sealed-bid auction, says it was agreed that per-item prices would be undisclosed and buyers would remain anonymous, the prices were read aloud at the board meeting and several later reported by the Logan Herald Journal: \u201cFarmington Winter\u201d (1924) by LeConte Stewart sold for $126,000 (Ericson had estimated it would go for $80,000-$100,000); J.T. Harwood\u2019s \u201cGleaners after Millet\u201d for $68,500 and Henri Moser\u2019s \u201cAspens\u201d for $10,650. \u201cThe auction included 11 paintings, but Minerva Teichert\u2019s \u2018The Spinner\u2019 did not receive bids above the appraisal value and was not sold,\u201d according to the newspaper.<\/p>\n

Ericson says that while he had 32 bids from outside the state, many of those from the East Coast, the eventual buyers were all private and from Utah (two from Logan), with the exception of one who is from California but lives at Sundance.<\/p>\n

The works will be seen again in the state, says Ericson. \u201cAll these buyers are people who would be willing to lend them to an exhibition. They didn\u2019t buy them to bury them,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Ericson believes the school is glad to still have the Tiechert in their collection. \u201cThe important thing is that they use the funds to restore the works they have left \u2013 there\u2019s a great B.F. Larsen, about 4 foot by 3 foot, but with a crack over the whole surface because the paint is so thick \u2013 and spend some of the endowment funds on new work to fill in the gaps and keep the collection alive, fresh, and interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of the remaining art has signatures that can\u2019t be read. Other works are by such artists as Everett Thorpe, Calvin Fletcher, Hilma Moyle Payne, Nellie Kilgore Kilnge, Vere L. Matthews, H. Reuben Reynolds, Delbert Smedley, B.F. Larsen, Esther Paulson, John Heber Stansfield, Michael Cannon, Raymond Hendry Williams, Edwin Evans, Theodore Milton Wassmer, D. Howell Rosenbaum and Mary Teasdel.<\/p>\n

District Superintendent Frank Schofield told us that the intention is to use the funds to produce gicl\u00e9es of the auctioned art for display in the schools; to gradually clean and restore the remaining pieces of art so they can be appropriately displayed; and to create an endowment to provide supplemental education and cultural experiences for students who otherwise would be unable to access them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cFarmington Winter\u201d (1924) by LeConte Stewart sold for $126,000. By unanimous vote, the Logan City School District Board of Education finalized the sale of 10 paintings in the district\u2019s collection purchased with the milk money of elementary students in the 1930s that became worth a good deal: in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":844,"featured_media":37159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3174,3168,3180,3166,3173,198,3175,3167,3172,3169,3176,439,3181,3177,3170,3178,3179,3171],"class_list":["post-37158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-visual_arts","tag-b-f-larsen","tag-calvin-fletcher","tag-d-howell-rosenbaum","tag-david-ericson","tag-delbert-smedley","tag-edwin-evans","tag-esther-paulson","tag-everett-thorpe","tag-h-reuben-reynolds","tag-hilma-moyle-payne","tag-john-heber-stansfield","tag-leconte-stewart","tag-mary-teasdel","tag-michael-cannon","tag-nellie-kilgore-kilnge","tag-raymond-hendry-williams","tag-theodore-milton-wassmer","tag-vere-l-matthews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-07-at-9.05.02-PM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 05:05:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37158"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98542,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37158\/revisions\/98542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}