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Bror Utter
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Bror Utter was an idiosyncratic and experimental Fort Worth-based artist who was among the first generation of Texas artists to abandon the imitative Impressionism and Regionalism that dominated the state’s art scene. He looked to the European Modernists for inspiration and once dismissively said that he and his Fort Worth peers “thought Regionalism was old hat." Utter was famous for his theatrical figures—troupes of prancing harlequins and packs of cavorting dancers—but he was also a gifted landscape artist. Saturated colors and fantastic imagery were hallmarks of his oeuvre. Utter was a native of Fort Worth, Texas. The grandson of a Finnish painter, he studied art at the Fort Worth School of Fine Arts, mounting his first exhibition at the school in 1936. He spent most of the 30s toiling away in anonymity in his father’s lithographic printing company. In the 1940s, Utter first developed the theatrical abstractions he is most famous for. Drawing on his fondness for the theater, he incorporated all manner of Commedia dell'arte characters into his paintings, rendering them in vibrant, pulsating color. Katie Robinson Edwards, an assistant professor at Baylor University, memorably describes Utter’s abstractions as “elegant surrealistic gouaches of forms that seem to be offspring of geometric creatures and modernist furniture.” In 1953, however, Utter traveled to Italy to study architecture. The trip renewed his early interest in landscapes and in architectural forms and he dedicated himself to producing realistic watercolors. “Taos Gorge” likely dates from this period in Utter’s career, and while it is ostensibly a realist work, Utter has retained his attention to compositional elements, using jagged and slashing lines to suggest the gorge’s depth. His use of oranges and blues reinforces the cohesion of the composition. Utter worked in Fort Worth until his death in 1993. Though primarily based in Fort Worth, he exhibited widely, displaying work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; the National Academy of Design, New York, NY; the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Weyhe Galleries, New York, NY; The Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY; the Freer Museum, Washington, DC; and the Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX.

Creator:
Bror Utter (1913 - 1993, American)
Creation Year:
No date
Dimensions:
Height: 17.5 in (44.45 cm)Width: 26.25 in (66.68 cm)
Medium:
Watercolor,Paper
Period:
20th Century
Condition:
Excellent.
Gallery Location:
Dallas, TX
Reference Number:
1stDibs: G140409149323

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