{"id":37168,"date":"2018-02-07T20:43:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T02:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=37168"},"modified":"2018-09-14T20:48:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T02:48:37","slug":"martin-blundell-ed-maryon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/martin-blundell-ed-maryon\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Blundell & Ed Maryon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Printmaker and artist Martin Blundell, whose son, photographer Simon Blundell, is profiled in February\u2019s edition of 15 Bytes, studied at the U under Robert Kleinschmidt during the mid-70s and is well known for his mixed-media drawings and paintings. He and two partners just sold SDI, a large Salt Lake City screen-printing business, which will leave him time to get back to artistic pursuits.<\/p>\n

\"\u201cSnow<\/a>

\u201cSnow Barn\u201d by Ed Maryon<\/p><\/div>\n

He tells us, \u201cI love Ed Maryon watercolor paintings.\u201d Maryon\u2019s watercolors, Blundell recalls, were most interesting and \u201cdifferent than the watercolor paintings I was used to seeing. The paintings combined the gradients and texture of the medium, with Ed\u2019s liberal use of design.\u201d\u00a0Blundell says he remembers \u201ca painting of a shed, trees and scattered objects after a snowstorm. Ed used the white paper to represent the snow highlighting the forms under a white blanket.\u201d The work was \u201cSnow Barn\u201d from 1980.<\/p>\n

\u201cI made a screen print in a similar way, using the white unprinted paper to establish the snow hanging heavy on the branches of aspen trees, against a dark landscape background and blue sky,\u201d says Blundell, a tribute Maryon would surely have appreciated.<\/p>\n

A watercolorist of Cubist tendencies whose works \u201care elegies to structure and grace\u201d was how 15 Bytes Editor Shawn Rossiter described Edward D. Maryon (1931-2005) in an article written just before the artist died of Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n

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\"\u201cWinter<\/a>

\u201cWinter World\u201d by Martin Blundell, 1971.<\/p><\/div>\n

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During his 34 years with the University of Utah (where he earned his BFA in 1952 and MFA in 1956), Maryon worked as a professor; was named chair of the art department in 1962; served as acting dean and dean of the College of Fine Arts. During his time as dean, the college added a new Art and Architecture center and a new Museum of Fine Arts, as well as professional ballet and modern dance.\u00a0In 1970, Maryon also began teaching a summer art workshop on the Monterey Peninsula that lasted more than 30 years.\u00a0He credited his undergraduate instructors, LeConte Stewart, Alvin Gittins, Arnold Friberg, and George Dibble as the most influential in his life.<\/p>\n

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