Springville Museum of Art

This is the official guidebook and history of the Springville Museum of Art, "Utah's Art City" jewel. It chronicles the Museum's remarkable origins in a turn-of-the-century high school art movement, its founders John Hafen and Cyrus Dallin, the building of its WPA-era gallery, and the growth of its celebrated collections of Utah, American, and Soviet-Russian art. The second half is a lavishly captioned catalogue of individual works, providing artist biographies and analysis for the permanent collection.

• The prophetic pioneer vision that grew into one of the West's finest art museums
• How a tiny Utah town built America's premier high school art collection
• Why bourgeois Utah holds one of America's greatest Soviet Realist art collections
• The Norman Rockwell masterpiece that got away—now worth millions

“"When a man gives his life for art, he gives it for the Savior; John Hafen gave something to the world that will never die."”

Perfect for an art lover, museum visitor, Utah history enthusiast, or collector interested in Utah, American, and Soviet-Russian art and the story of one remarkable small-town museum.