Art Barn records 1920-1980s

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Art Barn records 1920-1980s

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The Art Barn records (1920-1980s) consist of materials that document the conception, management, and activities of the Art Barn in Salt Lake City. The Art Barn was conceptualized by Alta Rawlins Jensen during the early 1930s and has served as a gathering place for the visual and performing arts since.

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J. Willard Marriott Library. University of Utah Manuscripts Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6375385

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Jensen, Alta Rawlins, 1884-1980.

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Joseph L. Rawlins (1850-1926) was born on 28 March 1850. His parents, Joseph Sharp and Mary Frost Rawlins, had immigrated to Utah in 1849 and settled at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains near Millcreek. Soon after young Joseph's birth the family moved to the southern end of the Great Salt Lake Valley to a settlement later called Draperville. As a child Rawlins found the small schoolroom at the settlement a relief from the hardships of pioneer life and he excelled in scholastic studi...

Art Barn (Salt Lake City, Utah).

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First permanent art center in Utah. Begun in 1930. From the description of Records, 1930-1982. (Utah State University). WorldCat record id: 122610293 In 1930 Salt Lake City had no public art gallery. The person most responsible for conceiving of, and nurturing, the Art Barn's early beginnings was Alta Rawlings Jensen. The inspiration and determination to establish such a center came to her as a result of a visit to Carmel, California, a Mecca for artist and writ...