Robert L. Marshall

Title of Painting: TENNANT FARM, ENGLAND

Media Type: Oil on canvas

Dimensions of Painting: 32"x42"

Artist Statement: 

Tennant Farm is a nostalgic remembrance of the farm.  I felt that as those enduring the hardships of the handcart experience remembered the comfort and beauty of where they had left, they would romanticize it even more.  Hence, late afternoon light, smoke from a warm fire, sheep grazing.  An idealic memory.  A place that put into question the decision to come to Utah, and yet, they kept enduring the elements and moving forward.

Artist Biography: 

Robert L. Marshall served as chair of the Department of Art at Brigham Young University for twelve years before returning to the studio and the classroom full-time. He is the recipient of many awards, including the College of Fine Arts and Communications annual award for Excellence in Creativity, and the Karl G. Maeser Research and Creative Arts Award. He has exhibited throughout the U. S. and Europe, and was one of the six artists commissioned to paint murals for the Nauvoo Temple.